girls:
4.1k births since 1997
#2702 (53rd percentile)
boys:
26.7k births since 1985
#699 (85th percentile)
overall:
30.8k births since 1985
#1446 (81st percentile)
The name Karter is the #1,446 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 30,814 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 81.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #699 (84.8% percentile) for all time with 26,744 births since 1985. For girls, it ranks #2,702 (52.7% percentile) for all time with 4,070 births since 1997.
Karter first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (1985 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Karter is available in 35 out of the 39 years between 1985 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 27 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 Karter has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 84.1% of babies named Karter were boys.
For boys, Karter reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 82.8% percentile (ranked #159) with 1,260 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 1,265 births per million (ranked 82.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Karter ranks #222 for boys (75.7% percentile) with 868 births per million, which is 68.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Karter reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 40.5% percentile (ranked #572) with 210 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 212 births per million (ranked 40.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karter ranks #659 for girls (30.4% percentile) with 172 births per million, which is 81.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karter".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Karter is pronounced as KAHR-ter, which has 2 syllables.
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