girls:
7.7k births since 1947
#1849 (68th percentile)
boys:
126.9k births since 1880
#257 (94th percentile)
overall:
134.7k births since 1880
#550 (93rd percentile)
The name Carson is the #550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 134,682 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #257 (94.4% percentile) for all time with 126,941 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,849 (67.7% percentile) for all time with 7,741 births since 1947.
Carson has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1947 for girls). Birth data for Carson is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 65 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 Carson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 94.5% of babies named Carson were boys.
For boys, Carson reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 92.5% percentile (ranked #69) with 2,705 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 2,705 births per million (ranked 92.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Carson ranks #108 for boys (88.2% percentile) with 1,748 births per million, which is 64.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Carson reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 44.9% percentile (ranked #489) with 230 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 230 births per million (ranked 44.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Carson ranks #764 for girls (19.3% percentile) with 107 births per million, which is 46.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carson".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Carson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.5% confident that Carson is pronounced as KAHR-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-zuhn, at 11.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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