Karson
#3,577 for girls in 2025, 42 births · #453 for boys in 2025, 690 births
Given to boys 91.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 1,345 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 21,394since 1966
Karson over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #3,577 | 42 | #453 | 690 |
| 2024 | #3,081 | 52 | #397 | 819 |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | #337 | 987 |
| 2022 | #2,928 | 57 | #339 | 988 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 | #305 | 1,090 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 | #266 | 1,289 |
| 2019 | #2,962 | 55 | #270 | 1,331 |
| 2018 | #2,557 | 68 | #265 | 1,345 |
| 2017 | #2,689 | 64 | #286 | 1,269 |
| 2016 | #2,269 | 84 | #318 | 1,104 |
| 2015 | #2,685 | 66 | #293 | 1,226 |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | #328 | 1,039 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 | #331 | 979 |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 | #363 | 838 |
| 2011 | #2,695 | 65 | #366 | 813 |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 | #380 | 760 |
| 2009 | #2,940 | 59 | #448 | 619 |
| 2008 | #3,316 | 50 | #487 | 566 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 | #541 | 473 |
| 2006 | #3,090 | 54 | #559 | 450 |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 | #596 | 379 |
| 2004 | #2,503 | 67 | #603 | 354 |
| 2003 | #2,084 | 85 | #617 | 336 |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 | #678 | 270 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 | #703 | 254 |
| 2000 | #1,923 | 88 | #726 | 238 |
| 1999 | #1,596 | 105 | #961 | 150 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 | #1,216 | 101 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 | #1,402 | 78 |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 | #1,334 | 81 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 | #1,467 | 66 |
| 1994 | #2,661 | 46 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #2,573 | 48 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | #2,777 | 43 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,255 | 27 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,942 | 17 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Karson! It came in at #3,948, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Karson is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Montana#134 · 1 in 444
- Iowa#159 · 1 in 609
- South Dakota#183 · 1 in 589
- Utah#189 · 1 in 718
- North Dakota#193 · 1 in 665
Best ever in a state: #40 in Mississippi, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | #134 | 9 | 1 in 444 |
| Iowa | #159 | 26 | 1 in 609 |
| South Dakota | #183 | 7 | 1 in 589 |
| Utah | #189 | 32 | 1 in 718 |
| North Dakota | #193 | 5 | 1 in 665 |
| Arkansas | #204 | 18 | 1 in 835 |
| Louisiana | #212 | 26 | 1 in 963 |
| Mississippi | #228 | 14 | 1 in 1,065 |
| Alabama | #231 | 21 | 1 in 1,150 |
| Indiana | #295 | 24 | 1 in 1,558 |
| Wisconsin | #301 | 18 | 1 in 1,594 |
| West Virginia | #306 | 5 | 1 in 1,715 |
| Missouri | #312 | 20 | 1 in 1,673 |
| Kentucky | #315 | 12 | 1 in 1,952 |
| Tennessee | #327 | 20 | 1 in 1,816 |
| Oklahoma | #335 | 14 | 1 in 1,532 |
| Ohio | #345 | 29 | 1 in 2,160 |
| Washington | #348 | 21 | 1 in 1,760 |
| Oregon | #357 | 11 | 1 in 1,756 |
| Minnesota | #385 | 13 | 1 in 2,246 |
| Idaho | #392 | 5 | 1 in 1,753 |
| South Carolina | #396 | 10 | 1 in 2,170 |
| North Carolina | #420 | 20 | 1 in 2,692 |
| Michigan | #421 | 19 | 1 in 2,598 |
| Colorado | #426 | 12 | 1 in 2,395 |
| Illinois | #446 | 26 | 1 in 2,790 |
| Texas | #473 | 56 | 1 in 3,330 |
| Georgia | #493 | 20 | 1 in 2,951 |
| Arizona | #607 | 9 | 1 in 4,437 |
| Massachusetts | #682 | 5 | 1 in 6,211 |
| Virginia | #686 | 8 | 1 in 5,270 |
| Pennsylvania | #728 | 10 | 1 in 6,212 |
| Florida | #804 | 15 | 1 in 6,353 |
| California | #1,012 | 21 | 1 in 11,531 |
| New York | #1,057 | 11 | 1 in 9,792 |
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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 Karson
- 56 spots since 2024 (#397 → #453)
- 187 spots since 2020 (#266 → #453)
- 160 spots since 2015 (#293 → #453)
- Biggest jump: 255 spots in 1999 (#1,216 → #961)
- Biggest drop: 60 spots in 2024 (#337 → #397)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2018 at #265 (1,345 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,339 boys born in 2020 were named Karson (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,475 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #265 in 2018, was only 1 in 1,350 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 50.0% of all boys named Karson (10,704) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1993, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #3,948 (1966) | #3,948 |
| 1970s | 40 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,648 |
| 1980s | 149 | #2,255 (1988) | #3,524 |
| 1990s | 694 | #961 (1999) | #1,638 |
| 2000s | 3,939 | #448 (2009) | #596 |
| 2010s | 10,704 | #265 (2018) | #320 |
| 2020s | 5,863 | #266 (2020) | #350 |
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.
Karson in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 31,138 of them was named Karson, which outranked 85.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,892Yadhira60
- #2,892Zella60
- #2,892Zoei60
- #2,940Karson59
- #2,940Addy59
- #2,940Adley59
- #2,940Aleeza59
- #2,966Alayjah58
- #2,966Angeli58
- #2,966Anoushka58
Tied with 25 names at #2,940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 3,204 of them was named Karson, which outranked 96.9% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.