Carlon
Carlon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197319 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1921
- 1,050people given the name
The story in the numbers
863 boys have been named Carlon in the United States since 1921, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 19 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 19 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1940s alone account for 14%.
Carlon is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are girls (187), most of them born around 1948.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carlon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 65 | |
| 1930s | 87 | |
| 1940s | 120 | |
| 1950s | 102 | |
| 1960s | 85 | |
| 1970s | 105 | |
| 1980s | 75 | |
| 1990s | 94 | |
| 2000s | 74 | |
| 2010s | 51 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1973, its biggest year
Carlon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1973 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, James and David. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Carlon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cesariopeak 1937
- Baldemarpeak 1989
- Alvinopeak 1966
- Darvinpeak 1963
- Marlanpeak 1941
- Sherwinpeak 1935
- Lanierpeak 1952
- Delroypeak 1992
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.