Carlson
- #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1943 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 747since 1920
Carlson over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Carlson has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #6,199 | 14 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #5,111 | 18 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #5,733 | 15 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #2,315 | 13 |
| 1959 | #2,295 | 13 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | #2,316 | 12 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | #2,514 | 10 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 5 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,606 | 9 |
| 1948 | #2,608 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
| 1944 | #2,309 | 10 |
| 1943 | #2,277 | 11 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,872 | 7 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,829 | 7 |
| 1938 | #2,646 | 8 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,629 | 8 |
| 1935 | — | |
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| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #3,697 | 6 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #2,765 | 10 |
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First appearance
1920
The first year at least five boys were named Carlson! It came in at #2,765, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1923, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Carlson is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Carlson in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Carlson
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 5,809 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #12,008)
- 3,269 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #12,008)
- 6,719 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #12,008)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1920
- Peaked 1943 at #2,277 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1945, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 99,881
- Highest: 1 in 99,881 boys born in 2016 were named Carlson (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,277 in 1943, was only 1 in 129,754 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 17.8% of all boys named Carlson (133) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 41 | #2,765 (1920) | #3,563 |
| 1930s | 23 | #2,629 (1936) | #2,701 |
| 1940s | 64 | #2,277 (1943) | #2,785 |
| 1950s | 72 | #2,295 (1959) | #3,121 |
| 1960s | 53 | #2,315 (1960) | #3,330 |
| 1970s | 47 | #2,549 (1974) | #4,009 |
| 1980s | 54 | #4,162 (1988) | #5,651 |
| 1990s | 92 | #4,413 (1998) | #6,105 |
| 2000s | 117 | #4,785 (2000) | #6,473 |
| 2010s | 133 | #4,943 (2016) | #6,503 |
| 2020s | 51 | #6,199 (2024) | #8,108 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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