Karter
#987 for girls in 2025, 256 births · #270 for boys in 2025, 1,265 births
Given to boys 86.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 2,340 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 29,465since 1985
Karter 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 | #987 | 256 | #270 | 1,265 |
| 2024 | #1,001 | 257 | #248 | 1,431 |
| 2023 | #887 | 303 | #225 | 1,597 |
| 2022 | #892 | 312 | #217 | 1,743 |
| 2021 | #860 | 319 | #201 | 1,919 |
| 2020 | #893 | 297 | #162 | 2,340 |
| 2019 | #758 | 370 | #163 | 2,425 |
| 2018 | #870 | 312 | #176 | 2,239 |
| 2017 | #783 | 351 | #174 | 2,286 |
| 2016 | #701 | 410 | #188 | 2,125 |
| 2015 | #692 | 410 | #183 | 2,286 |
| 2014 | #972 | 274 | #194 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | #1,385 | 167 | #299 | 1,179 |
| 2012 | #1,629 | 132 | #349 | 886 |
| 2011 | #2,173 | 87 | #390 | 727 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 | #443 | 604 |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 | #567 | 466 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | #668 | 362 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | #801 | 268 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | #844 | 239 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #892 | 202 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #1,101 | 143 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #1,103 | 139 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #1,315 | 101 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #1,287 | 102 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #1,848 | 57 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #2,199 | 42 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #2,201 | 39 |
| 1996 | — | #2,838 | 26 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Karter! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1989, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Karter is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#25 · 1 in 196
- Mississippi#29 · 1 in 181
- Alabama#39 · 1 in 218
- South Carolina#46 · 1 in 227
- Georgia#84 · 1 in 333
Best ever in a state: #25 in Louisiana, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | #25 | 110 | 1 in 196 |
| Mississippi | #29 | 67 | 1 in 181 |
| Alabama | #39 | 100 | 1 in 218 |
| South Carolina | #46 | 88 | 1 in 227 |
| Georgia | #84 | 151 | 1 in 333 |
| Arkansas | #85 | 41 | 1 in 311 |
| Delaware | #97 | 11 | 1 in 281 |
| North Carolina | #101 | 122 | 1 in 401 |
| Tennessee | #112 | 81 | 1 in 421 |
| Ohio | #114 | 124 | 1 in 439 |
| Oklahoma | #128 | 36 | 1 in 493 |
| Michigan | #131 | 84 | 1 in 508 |
| Florida | #133 | 165 | 1 in 547 |
| Virginia | #136 | 71 | 1 in 545 |
| Idaho | #138 | 16 | 1 in 484 |
| Missouri | #138 | 57 | 1 in 500 |
| Maryland | #140 | 47 | 1 in 533 |
| Indiana | #156 | 57 | 1 in 570 |
| Nevada | #158 | 21 | 1 in 565 |
| Nebraska | #163 | 16 | 1 in 548 |
| West Virginia | #170 | 12 | 1 in 580 |
| Texas | #175 | 229 | 1 in 739 |
| Rhode Island | #176 | 6 | 1 in 562 |
| Illinois | #185 | 72 | 1 in 759 |
| North Dakota | #185 | 6 | 1 in 561 |
| Pennsylvania | #185 | 72 | 1 in 750 |
| South Dakota | #191 | 6 | 1 in 556 |
| Iowa | #201 | 19 | 1 in 714 |
| District of Columbia | #213 | 5 | 1 in 699 |
| New York | #213 | 95 | 1 in 923 |
| Kentucky | #227 | 22 | 1 in 892 |
| Kansas | #237 | 15 | 1 in 915 |
| New Jersey | #243 | 37 | 1 in 1,063 |
| Wisconsin | #281 | 21 | 1 in 1,140 |
| Connecticut | #312 | 9 | 1 in 1,456 |
| Washington | #326 | 22 | 1 in 1,508 |
| Massachusetts | #331 | 15 | 1 in 1,790 |
| New Mexico | #331 | 6 | 1 in 1,213 |
| California | #336 | 115 | 1 in 1,649 |
| Colorado | #350 | 17 | 1 in 1,477 |
| Arizona | #364 | 20 | 1 in 1,598 |
| Utah | #394 | 12 | 1 in 1,607 |
| Oregon | #401 | 9 | 1 in 1,720 |
| Minnesota | #415 | 13 | 1 in 1,923 |
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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 Karter
- 22 spots since 2024 (#248 → #270)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#162 → #270)
- 87 spots since 2015 (#183 → #270)
- Biggest jump: 209 spots in 2005 (#1,101 → #892)
- Biggest drop: 39 spots in 2021 (#162 → #201)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2020 at #162 (2,340 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 738 boys born in 2020 were named Karter (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,350 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 57.3% of all boys named Karter (16,874) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,523 (1985) | #6,523 |
| 1990s | 212 | #2,199 (1999) | #3,989 |
| 2000s | 2,079 | #567 (2009) | #1,043 |
| 2010s | 16,874 | #163 (2019) | #256 |
| 2020s | 10,295 | #162 (2020) | #221 |
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.
Karter in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 5,443 of them was named Karter, which outranked 94.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 738 of them was named Karter, which outranked 98.8% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.