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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Carla” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carla” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carla” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Carla” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Carla” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Carla” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Carla” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carla” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1906 10 0.00002334 10 100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 100%
1910 8 0.000013543 8 100%
1911 17 0.000026386 17 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 13 0.000011432 13 100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 100%
1915 23 0.000012552 23 100%
1916 21 0.000010856 21 100%
1917 20 0.000009966 20 100%
1918 31 0.000014278 31 100%
1919 16 0.000007582 16 100%
1920 26 0.000011491 26 100%
1921 29 0.000012422 29 100%
1922 19 0.0000083 19 100%
1923 30 0.000013029 30 100%
1924 36 0.000015116 36 100%
1925 39 0.000016715 39 100%
1926 72 0.00003136 72 100%
1927 82 0.000035355 82 100%
1928 93 0.000041133 93 100%
1929 124 0.000056565 124 100%
1930 153 0.000068817 153 100%
1931 165 0.000078408 165 100%
1932 197 0.000093308 197 100%
1933 175 0.000087524 175 100%
1934 200 0.000096301 200 100%
1935 214 0.000102397 214 100%
1936 244 0.000117444 244 100%
1937 256 0.00012015 256 100%
1938 311 0.00014056 311 100%
1939 347 0.000157481 347 100%
1940 440 0.000191081 440 100%
1941 455 0.000186749 455 100%
1942 554 0.000202795 554 100%
1943 642 0.000227453 642 100%
1944 722 0.000268394 722 100%
1945 862 0.000324926 862 100%
1946 1207 0.000377741 1201 6 99%
1947 1574 0.00043694 1569 5 99%
1948 1543 0.00044692 1543 100%
1949 1498 0.00042987 1498 100%
1950 1753 0.000500377 1753 100%
1951 2172 0.000589618 2172 100%
1952 2570 0.000676671 2565 5 100%
1953 2767 0.000718022 2760 7 99%
1954 2898 0.000728011 2889 9 99%
1955 3073 0.000765365 3066 7 100%
1956 3327 0.000806929 3320 7 100%
1957 3478 0.000827673 3470 8 100%
1958 3510 0.000849076 3502 8 100%
1959 3942 0.000948054 3935 7 100%
1960 4382 0.001054934 4374 8 100%
1961 5829 0.001407189 5817 12 100%
1962 5829 0.001444477 5821 8 100%
1963 5276 0.001332929 5264 12 100%
1964 5386 0.001385429 5378 8 100%
1965 4795 0.001322595 4781 14 99%
1966 4525 0.001301913 4508 17 99%
1967 4204 0.001238329 4185 19 99%
1968 3828 0.001133076 3813 15 99%
1969 3970 0.00114234 3964 6 100%
1970 4230 0.001172878 4214 16 99%
1971 3566 0.001038937 3556 10 99%
1972 3090 0.000983139 3083 7 100%
1973 2694 0.000892973 2686 8 99%
1974 2581 0.000849013 2571 10 99%
1975 2325 0.000770022 2315 10 99%
1976 2262 0.000745477 2249 13 99%
1977 2107 0.00066331 2099 8 99%
1978 2109 0.000664488 2102 7 99%
1979 1979 0.00059483 1970 9 99%
1980 1844 0.000535345 1832 12 99%
1981 1803 0.000521192 1789 14 98%
1982 1771 0.000504852 1759 12 99%
1983 1541 0.000444946 1528 13 98%
1984 1466 0.000420207 1454 12 98%
1985 1408 0.000394496 1397 11 98%
1986 1354 0.00038065 1343 11 98%
1987 1208 0.000335033 1198 10 98%
1988 1086 0.000293907 1086 100%
1989 1076 0.000279884 1067 9 98%
1990 1099 0.000278053 1092 7 99%
1991 1019 0.0002616 1009 10 98%
1992 1020 0.000265537 1013 7 99%
1993 882 0.000233935 882 100%
1994 804 0.000216265 798 6 99%
1995 769 0.000209986 764 5 99%
1996 769 0.000210847 769 100%
1997 725 0.000199959 725 100%
1998 668 0.00018161 668 100%
1999 679 0.000183818 679 100%
2000 706 0.000186777 706 100%
2001 674 0.000180051 674 100%
2002 764 0.000204371 764 100%
2003 648 0.000170422 648 100%
2004 629 0.00016462 629 100%
2005 585 0.000152152 585 100%
2006 610 0.000154189 610 100%
2007 579 0.000144834 579 100%
2008 531 0.000135092 531 100%
2009 440 0.000115178 440 100%
2010 368 0.000099574 368 100%
2011 368 0.000100607 368 100%
2012 371 0.000101439 371 100%
2013 300 0.000082289 300 100%
2014 320 0.000086338 320 100%
2015 318 0.000085925 318 100%
2016 323 0.000088042 323 100%
2017 279 0.000078016 279 100%
2018 255 0.000072528 255 100%
2019 252 0.000072603 252 100%
2020 245 0.000073341 245 100%
2021 220 0.000064936 220 100%
2022 291 0.000086015 291 100%
2023 267 0.000080636 267 100%
2024 252 0.00007571 252 100%

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