girls:
25 births since 1951
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
40 births since 1945
#4546 (1st percentile)
overall:
65 births since 1945
#7674 (1st percentile)
The name Carlan is the #7,674 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,546 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1945. For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1951.
Carlan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for boys and 1951 for girls). Birth data for Carlan is available in 12 out of the 56 years between 1945 and 2000 (7 years for boys and 5 years for girls). 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 Carlan has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.5% of all recorded births). In 2000, 100.0% of babies named Carlan were boys.
For boys, Carlan reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #583) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
For girls, Carlan reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #740) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carlan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Carlan is pronounced as KAHR-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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