How popular is “Carlos” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carlos” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carlos” 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 “Carlos” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carlos” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carlos” 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
1880	17	0.000084374		17	-100%
1881	19	0.000098605		19	-100%
1882	20	0.00009028		20	-100%
1883	22	0.000101408		22	-100%
1884	13	0.000053397		13	-100%
1885	28	0.000116253		28	-100%
1886	16	0.000062667		16	-100%
1887	20	0.000080843		20	-100%
1888	29	0.000096836		29	-100%
1889	25	0.000086521		25	-100%
1890	17	0.000056403		17	-100%
1891	16	0.000055813		16	-100%
1892	24	0.000071776		24	-100%
1893	26	0.000079945		26	-100%
1894	25	0.000073814		25	-100%
1895	20	0.000056977		20	-100%
1896	30	0.00008392		30	-100%
1897	28	0.000080702		28	-100%
1898	30	0.000078646		30	-100%
1899	36	0.000106121		36	-100%
1900	37	0.000082175		37	-100%
1901	38	0.000109886		38	-100%
1902	37	0.000095673		37	-100%
1903	41	0.000107555		41	-100%
1904	38	0.000094179		38	-100%
1905	58	0.000136818		58	-100%
1906	50	0.000116699		50	-100%
1907	74	0.000159006		74	-100%
1908	56	0.000114602		56	-100%
1909	60	0.000117365		60	-100%
1910	82	0.000138816		82	-100%
1911	69	0.000107097		69	-100%
1912	124	0.000125498		124	-100%
1913	165	0.000145105	5	160	-94%
1914	210	0.000148269		210	-100%
1915	273	0.000148983		273	-100%
1916	234	0.000120967		234	-100%
1917	298	0.000148499		298	-100%
1918	348	0.000160287		348	-100%
1919	312	0.00014785		312	-100%
1920	431	0.000190485	10	421	-95%
1921	399	0.000170914	6	393	-97%
1922	447	0.000195268	6	441	-97%
1923	434	0.000188492	7	427	-97%
1924	452	0.000189788		452	-100%
1925	477	0.000204431	6	471	-97%
1926	505	0.000219957	9	496	-96%
1927	552	0.000237997	8	544	-97%
1928	583	0.000257858		583	-100%
1929	570	0.000260017	13	557	-95%
1930	589	0.000264923	11	578	-96%
1931	553	0.000262784	8	545	-97%
1932	534	0.000252926	14	520	-95%
1933	572	0.000286079	9	563	-97%
1934	569	0.000273977	10	559	-96%
1935	565	0.000270348	6	559	-98%
1936	543	0.000261362	7	536	-97%
1937	543	0.000254849	12	531	-96%
1938	598	0.000270273	15	583	-95%
1939	588	0.000266855	9	579	-97%
1940	669	0.00029053	10	659	-97%
1941	621	0.000254882	7	614	-98%
1942	660	0.000241597		660	-100%
1943	708	0.000250836	10	698	-97%
1944	699	0.000259844	10	689	-97%
1945	736	0.000277431	17	719	-95%
1946	878	0.000274778	11	867	-97%
1947	1039	0.000288425	7	1032	-99%
1948	1040	0.000301229	13	1027	-98%
1949	1148	0.000329433	13	1135	-98%
1950	1204	0.00034367	15	1189	-98%
1951	1255	0.000340686	22	1233	-96%
1952	1274	0.000335439	16	1258	-97%
1953	1404	0.00036433	11	1393	-98%
1954	1627	0.000408721	16	1611	-98%
1955	1721	0.000428634	19	1702	-98%
1956	1817	0.000440695	22	1795	-98%
1957	1806	0.000429781	18	1788	-98%
1958	1922	0.000464936	19	1903	-98%
1959	1967	0.000473065	17	1950	-98%
1960	2021	0.000486541	29	1992	-97%
1961	2029	0.000489824	29	2000	-97%
1962	2140	0.00053031	20	2120	-98%
1963	2132	0.000538629	21	2111	-98%
1964	2218	0.000570531	24	2194	-98%
1965	2160	0.000595788	29	2131	-97%
1966	2189	0.000629809	29	2160	-97%
1967	2321	0.000683673	24	2297	-98%
1968	2526	0.000747688	31	2495	-98%
1969	2923	0.000841073	32	2891	-98%
1970	3408	0.000944957	28	3380	-98%
1971	3471	0.001011259	45	3426	-97%
1972	3473	0.001104997	37	3436	-98%
1973	3610	0.001196598	42	3568	-98%
1974	3918	0.001288816	47	3871	-98%
1975	3843	0.001272772	51	3792	-97%
1976	3827	0.001261246	40	3787	-98%
1977	3845	0.001210454	51	3794	-97%
1978	3777	0.00119003	48	3729	-97%
1979	4210	0.001265404	45	4165	-98%
1980	4133	0.001199882	48	4085	-98%
1981	4220	0.001219874	38	4182	-98%
1982	4320	0.001231484	51	4269	-98%
1983	3953	0.001141384	41	3912	-98%
1984	4007	0.001148547	42	3965	-98%
1985	4119	0.001154069	30	4089	-99%
1986	4146	0.001165563	57	4089	-97%
1987	4190	0.001162077	42	4148	-98%
1988	4180	0.001131245	53	4127	-97%
1989	4682	0.00121786	45	4637	-98%
1990	5257	0.001330052	44	5213	-98%
1991	5370	0.001378597	40	5330	-99%
1992	5372	0.001398495	31	5341	-99%
1993	5387	0.001428807	35	5352	-99%
1994	5353	0.001439887	25	5328	-99%
1995	5566	0.00151987	21	5545	-99%
1996	5490	0.001505266	26	5464	-99%
1997	5482	0.001511963	20	5462	-99%
1998	5496	0.001494206	16	5480	-99%
1999	6682	0.001808944	18	6664	-99%
2000	6339	0.001677027	17	6322	-99%
2001	6864	0.001833632	22	6842	-99%
2002	6612	0.001768723	20	6592	-99%
2003	6234	0.001639526	16	6218	-99%
2004	6276	0.001642535	16	6260	-99%
2005	6576	0.001710342	14	6562	-100%
2006	6562	0.001658667	13	6549	-100%
2007	6426	0.001607431	6	6420	-100%
2008	6058	0.001541215	6	6052	-100%
2009	5379	0.001408051		5379	-100%
2010	4600	0.001244677	9	4591	-100%
2011	4187	0.00114468	5	4182	-100%
2012	4016	0.001098058	7	4009	-100%
2013	3683	0.00101024		3683	-100%
2014	3424	0.000923813		3424	-100%
2015	3421	0.000924367		3421	-100%
2016	3204	0.000873334		3204	-100%
2017	3075	0.000859852		3075	-100%
2018	2874	0.00081743	10	2864	-99%
2019	2845	0.000819664		2845	-100%
2020	2479	0.000742087		2479	-100%
2021	2504	0.00073909		2504	-100%
2022	2598	0.000767927	5	2593	-100%
2023	2561	0.000773437	5	2556	-100%
2024	2614	0.000785339		2614	-100%

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