girls:
149.9k births since 1890
#263 (95th percentile)
boys:
425 births since 1946
#4161 (9th percentile)
overall:
150.3k births since 1890
#502 (94th percentile)
The name Carla is the #502 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 150,332 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 93.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #263 (95.4% percentile) for all time with 149,907 births since 1890. For boys, it ranks #4,161 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 425 births since 1946.
Carla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for girls and 1946 for boys). Birth data for Carla is available in 124 out of the 134 years between 1890 and 2023 (124 years for girls and 44 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Carla reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 90.3% percentile (ranked #77) with 2,800 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 2,871 births per million (ranked 90.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Carla ranks #690 for girls (27.2% percentile) with 153 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Carla reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #621) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carla".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Carla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Carla is pronounced as KAHR-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-lah, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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