Carlos
Carlos is ranked 135th among boys in 2024 (2,614 births). Its best rank was 59th, in 1999, 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- #135up 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,6140.15% of boys
- Peak year
- 20016,842 births
- Best rank
- #59first in 1999
- Since 1880
- 306,621people given the name
The story in the numbers
304,581 boys have been named Carlos in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2001, with 6,842 births — 0.35% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 118 → 135).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 2000s alone account for 21%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 43 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,040 girls have also been given it, 0.67% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carlos | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 209 | |
| 1890s | 252 | |
| 1900s | 489 | |
| 1910s | 2,110 | |
| 1920s | 4,785 | |
| 1930s | 5,553 | |
| 1940s | 8,100 | |
| 1950s | 15,822 | |
| 1960s | 22,391 | |
| 1970s | 36,948 | |
| 1980s | 41,503 | |
| 1990s | 55,179 | |
| 2000s | 63,196 | |
| 2010s | 35,298 | |
| 2020s | 12,746 |
In 2001, its biggest year
Carlos was the 59th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2001 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2001.
Names that rose and fell with Carlos
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hectorpeak 2005
- Juanpeak 2005
- Enriquepeak 2000
- Guillermopeak 1998
- Rogeliopeak 2005
- Josepeak 2002
- Juliopeak 1990
- Efrenpeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
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.