girls:
2k births since 1980
#3814 (33rd percentile)
boys:
19.9k births since 1966
#821 (82nd percentile)
overall:
21.9k births since 1966
#1725 (78th percentile)
The name Karson is the #1,725 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21,874 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 77.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #821 (82.1% percentile) for all time with 19,862 births since 1966. For girls, it ranks #3,814 (33.3% percentile) for all time with 2,012 births since 1980.
Karson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for boys and 1980 for girls). Birth data for Karson is available in 51 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (51 years for boys and 35 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 Karson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Karson reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 71.8% percentile (ranked #258) with 691 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 695 births per million (ranked 71.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Karson ranks #319 for boys (65.1% percentile) with 537 births per million, which is 77.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Karson reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #786) with 54 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 54 births per million (ranked 11.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karson ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 51.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karson".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Karson is pronounced as KAHR-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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