Carson
Carson is ranked 123rd among boys in 2024 (2,890 births). Its best rank was 70th, in 2018.
- Rank in 2024
- #123down 11 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,8900.17% of boys
- Peak year
- 20185,259 births
- Best rank
- #70in 2018
- Since 1880
- 137,777people given the name
The story in the numbers
129,861 boys have been named Carson in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 5,259 births — 0.29% 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 91 → 123).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 37%. It has spent 142 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 7,916 girls have also been given it, 5.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carson | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 89 | |
| 1890s | 93 | |
| 1900s | 142 | |
| 1910s | 753 | |
| 1920s | 1,050 | |
| 1930s | 933 | |
| 1940s | 1,123 | |
| 1950s | 1,212 | |
| 1960s | 859 | |
| 1970s | 1,185 | |
| 1980s | 2,333 | |
| 1990s | 9,971 | |
| 2000s | 44,631 | |
| 2010s | 48,019 | |
| 2020s | 17,468 |
In 2018, its biggest year
Carson was the 70th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Carson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ishanpeak 2009
- Ashtonpeak 2004
- Jacksonpeak 2013
- Amadoupeak 2008
- Hagenpeak 2006
- Shaanpeak 2009
- Edinpeak 2016
- Raghavpeak 2024
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.