girls:
13 births since 2021
#5703 (0th percentile)
boys:
407 births since 2003
#4179 (9th percentile)
overall:
420 births since 2003
#7319 (5th percentile)
The name Karver is the #7,319 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 420 recorded births since 2003. This represents the 5.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,179 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 407 births since 2003. For girls, it ranks #5,703 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2021.
Karver first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2003 (2003 for boys and 2021 for girls).
The name Karver has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 79.4% of babies named Karver were boys.
For boys, Karver reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #872) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 18 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Karver ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 81.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Karver reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #945) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Currently, Karver is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #945 (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karver".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Karver is pronounced as KAHR-ver, which has 2 syllables.
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