Carver
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #1,499 for boys in 2025, 117 births
Given to boys 96.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 141 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,161since 1912
Carver over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Carver has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 | #1,499 | 117 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,459 | 124 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #1,432 | 127 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #1,496 | 121 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #1,407 | 130 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,437 | 120 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,407 | 125 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #1,282 | 143 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #1,300 | 139 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #1,271 | 141 |
| 2014 | — | #1,396 | 121 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,492 | 109 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,551 | 102 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,656 | 91 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,612 | 97 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,731 | 89 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,028 | 69 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,972 | 71 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,176 | 59 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,943 | 65 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,934 | 63 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,238 | 48 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,068 | 52 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,520 | 38 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,665 | 32 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,851 | 28 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,559 | 18 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
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| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
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| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,538 | 11 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,391 | 11 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,367 | 11 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,027 | 14 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,403 | 10 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,445 | 21 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,738 | 16 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,486 | 22 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,042 | 13 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,333 | 10 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,736 | 16 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,958 | 13 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,542 | 9 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1912
The first year at least five boys were named Carver! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 40 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,499)
- 62 spots since 2020 (#1,437 → #1,499)
- 228 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #1,499)
Rise & fade · boys
103 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2015 at #1,271 (141 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
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 12,700
- Highest: 1 in 12,700 boys born in 2018 were named Carver (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,599 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,271 in 2015, was only 1 in 13,594 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 38.2% of all boys named Carver (1,208) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 22 | #2,544 (1912) | #3,273 |
| 1920s | 49 | #2,904 (1926) | #3,779 |
| 1930s | 64 | #1,958 (1939) | #2,798 |
| 1940s | 142 | #1,445 (1945) | #2,026 |
| 1950s | 72 | #2,367 (1951) | #3,044 |
| 1960s | 48 | #2,538 (1961) | #3,086 |
| 1970s | 31 | #3,282 (1970) | #4,861 |
| 1980s | 38 | #4,973 (1984) | #5,928 |
| 1990s | 171 | #2,665 (1999) | #4,041 |
| 2000s | 577 | #1,731 (2009) | #2,215 |
| 2010s | 1,208 | #1,271 (2015) | #1,426 |
| 2020s | 739 | #1,407 (2021) | #1,455 |
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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