girls:
80 births since 1962
#5636 (1st percentile)
boys:
15.4k births since 1894
#939 (80th percentile)
overall:
15.5k births since 1894
#2100 (73rd percentile)
The name Carlo is the #2,100 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,465 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 72.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #939 (79.5% percentile) for all time with 15,385 births since 1894. For girls, it ranks #5,636 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1962.
Carlo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for boys and 1962 for girls). Birth data for Carlo is available in 123 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (123 years for boys and 12 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 Carlo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Carlo reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 31.9% percentile (ranked #445) with 141 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 154 births per million (ranked 22.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Carlo ranks #712 for boys (21.9% percentile) with 111 births per million, which is 72.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Carlo reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #765) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1980.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carlo".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Carlo is pronounced as KAHR-loh, which has 2 syllables.
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