Carsten
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 129 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,367since 1912
Carsten over time
Rank among boys' names. Carsten has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | — | #4,249 | 24 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,474 | 33 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,962 | 42 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | — | #2,310 | 59 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,282 | 59 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,798 | 43 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,086 | 67 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,790 | 84 |
| 2014 | — | #1,657 | 93 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,500 | 108 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,367 | 123 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,319 | 129 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,425 | 116 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,708 | 91 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,441 | 115 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,593 | 98 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,738 | 80 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,081 | 59 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,815 | 68 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,055 | 55 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,249 | 46 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,982 | 54 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,256 | 43 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,608 | 33 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,394 | 36 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,750 | 28 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,678 | 18 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,030 | 23 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,659 | 9 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,534 | 14 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,310 | 13 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Carsten! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Carsten is popular in 2000
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#634 · 1 in 6,320
Best ever in a state: #356 in Iowa, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #634 | 6 | 1 in 6,320 |
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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 Carsten
- 452 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #4,249)
- 1,812 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #4,249)
- 2,459 spots since 2015 (#1,790 → #4,249)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2011 at #1,319 (129 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,723 boys born in 2011 were named Carsten (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.2% of all boys named Carsten (881) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | #2,269 (1912) | #2,966 |
| 1920s | 59 | #2,772 (1923) | #3,693 |
| 1930s | 19 | #3,004 (1933) | #3,123 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 15 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,871 |
| 1960s | 75 | #2,310 (1964) | #3,101 |
| 1970s | 63 | #2,534 (1972) | #3,813 |
| 1980s | 78 | #3,201 (1987) | #4,309 |
| 1990s | 230 | #2,394 (1998) | #3,201 |
| 2000s | 709 | #1,441 (2008) | #1,892 |
| 2010s | 881 | #1,319 (2011) | #1,853 |
| 2020s | 212 | #2,437 (2020) | #3,483 |
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.
Carsten in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
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1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 45,674 of them was named Carsten, which outranked 81.4% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,222Tywan44
- #2,222Tzvi44
- #2,222Wilber44
- #2,256Carsten43
- #2,256Armaan43
- #2,256Brysen43
- #2,256Cross43
- #2,298Abdallah42
- #2,298Aharon42
- #2,298Armin42
Tied with 41 names at #2,256; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.