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
- 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
Rank among boys' names. Carver 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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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.
Where Carver is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nebraska#388 · 1 in 1,443
- Iowa#582 · 1 in 2,792
- Oregon#594 · 1 in 3,056
- Minnesota#737 · 1 in 4,155
- Tennessee#912 · 1 in 5,985
Best ever in a state: #191 in Iowa, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | #388 | 6 | 1 in 1,443 |
| Iowa | #582 | 5 | 1 in 2,792 |
| Oregon | #594 | 5 | 1 in 3,056 |
| Minnesota | #737 | 6 | 1 in 4,155 |
| Tennessee | #912 | 6 | 1 in 5,985 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,249 | 5 | 1 in 10,707 |
| Illinois | #1,283 | 5 | 1 in 10,352 |
| California | #1,545 | 11 | 1 in 17,194 |
| Texas | #2,131 | 7 | 1 in 25,530 |
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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 Carver
- 40 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,499)
- 62 spots since 2020 (#1,437 → #1,499)
- 228 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #1,499)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2015 at #1,271 (141 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 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.
Carver in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 182,237 of them was named Carver, which outranked 41.5% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,680Zoraida10
- #9,680Zoriana10
- #9,680Zyari10
- #10,383Carver9
- #10,383Aafiyah9
- #10,383Aaleah9
- #10,383Aalina9
- #11,231Aadriti8
- #11,231Aaisha8
- #11,231Aaravi8
Tied with 847 names at #10,383; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 14,430 of them was named Carver, which outranked 89.6% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,479Townes122
- #1,479Uziel122
- #1,479Vivaan122
- #1,496Carver121
- #1,496Barron121
- #1,496Coy121
- #1,496Craig121
- #1,504Aamir120
- #1,504Alexzander120
- #1,504Brexton120
Tied with 7 names at #1,496; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.