Carsen
- #4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births
- #2,183 for boys in 2025, 65 births
- Given to boys 78.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 226 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,046since 1985
Carsen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | #2,183 | 65 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 | #1,970 | 79 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 | #1,718 | 97 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #1,678 | 102 |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 | #1,407 | 130 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #1,250 | 148 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 | #1,171 | 165 |
| 2018 | #3,293 | 48 | #1,261 | 145 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | #1,066 | 185 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #1,045 | 189 |
| 2015 | #4,232 | 34 | #1,148 | 164 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #1,004 | 205 |
| 2013 | #4,755 | 29 | #1,020 | 191 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | #1,120 | 164 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | #1,012 | 190 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 | #901 | 226 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #962 | 209 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 | #995 | 196 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 | #1,124 | 160 |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 | #1,214 | 138 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 | #1,261 | 124 |
| 2004 | #4,093 | 34 | #1,246 | 121 |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | #1,134 | 133 |
| 2002 | #3,069 | 47 | #1,424 | 91 |
| 2001 | #3,368 | 40 | #1,143 | 121 |
| 2000 | #2,817 | 51 | #1,666 | 69 |
| 1999 | #2,703 | 51 | #1,692 | 62 |
| 1998 | #3,426 | 35 | #2,450 | 35 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #3,064 | 24 |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | #3,432 | 19 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1985
The first year at least five boys were named Carsen! It came in at #5,785, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Carsen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #2,080 | 7 | 1 in 25,007 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Carsen
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 933 spots since 2020 (#1,250 → #2,183)
- Biggest jump: 129 spots in 2008
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 2011
Rise & fade · boys
25 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2010 at #901 (226 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 2008–2010
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,490
- Highest: 1 in 8,490 boys born in 2010 were named Carsen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,278 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 45.1% of all boys named Carsen (1,824) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1999
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 17 | #5,785 (1985) | #6,593 |
| 1990s | 222 | #1,692 (1999) | #3,682 |
| 2000s | 1,362 | #962 (2009) | #1,217 |
| 2010s | 1,824 | #901 (2010) | #1,075 |
| 2020s | 621 | #1,250 (2020) | #1,701 |
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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