girls:
144 births since 1940
#5572 (2nd percentile)
boys:
462 births since 1904
#4124 (10th percentile)
overall:
606 births since 1904
#7133 (8th percentile)
The name Carle is the #7,133 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 606 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 7.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,124 (10.0% percentile) for all time with 462 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,572 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 144 births since 1940.
Carle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1940 for girls). Birth data for Carle is available in 71 out of the 104 years between 1904 and 2007 (55 years for boys and 22 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 Carle has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2007, 0.0% of babies named Carle were boys. Interestingly, until around 1977, the name was more popular for boys (93.6% boys from 1904 to 1976), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (95.0% girls from 1977 to 2007).
For boys, Carle reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #520) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1982.
For girls, Carle reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #935) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Carle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.6% confident that Carle is pronounced as kahrl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-ruhl, at 21.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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