How popular is “Carter” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carter” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carter” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carter” 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
1881	12	0.000062277		12	-100%
1883	11	0.000050704		11	-100%
1884	13	0.000053397		13	-100%
1885	10	0.000041519		10	-100%
1886	15	0.000058751		15	-100%
1887	13	0.000052548		13	-100%
1888	15	0.000050088		15	-100%
1889	11	0.000038069		11	-100%
1890	8	0.000026543		8	-100%
1891	13	0.000045348		13	-100%
1892	18	0.000053832		18	-100%
1893	13	0.000039973		13	-100%
1894	16	0.000047241		16	-100%
1895	9	0.00002564		9	-100%
1896	13	0.000036365		13	-100%
1897	16	0.000046115		16	-100%
1898	14	0.000036702		14	-100%
1899	14	0.000041269		14	-100%
1900	31	0.000068849		31	-100%
1901	13	0.000037593		13	-100%
1902	11	0.000028443		11	-100%
1903	23	0.000060336		23	-100%
1904	25	0.00006196		25	-100%
1905	16	0.000037743		16	-100%
1906	15	0.00003501		15	-100%
1907	18	0.000038677		18	-100%
1908	25	0.000051161		25	-100%
1909	22	0.000043034		22	-100%
1910	26	0.000044015		26	-100%
1911	26	0.000040355		26	-100%
1912	45	0.000045544		45	-100%
1913	37	0.000032539		37	-100%
1914	92	0.000064956		92	-100%
1915	78	0.000042567		78	-100%
1916	83	0.000042907		83	-100%
1917	91	0.000045347		91	-100%
1918	100	0.000046059	5	95	-90%
1919	107	0.000050705		107	-100%
1920	103	0.000045522	5	98	-90%
1921	83	0.000035554		83	-100%
1922	93	0.000040626		93	-100%
1923	83	0.000036048		83	-100%
1924	112	0.000047027		112	-100%
1925	95	0.000040715	6	89	-87%
1926	89	0.000038765		89	-100%
1927	94	0.000040528	9	85	-81%
1928	78	0.000034499		78	-100%
1929	71	0.000032388		71	-100%
1930	62	0.000027887		62	-100%
1931	85	0.000040392	7	78	-84%
1932	68	0.000032208		68	-100%
1933	77	0.000038511		77	-100%
1934	97	0.000046706		97	-100%
1935	101	0.000048328		101	-100%
1936	98	0.00004717		98	-100%
1937	99	0.000046464		99	-100%
1938	106	0.000047908		106	-100%
1939	83	0.000037668	6	77	-86%
1940	94	0.000040822	6	88	-87%
1941	116	0.000047611	7	109	-88%
1942	112	0.000040998		112	-100%
1943	135	0.000047829	5	130	-93%
1944	127	0.000047211	5	122	-92%
1945	124	0.000046741		124	-100%
1946	149	0.000046631		149	-100%
1947	178	0.000049413		178	-100%
1948	159	0.000046053	9	150	-89%
1949	184	0.000052801	6	178	-93%
1950	177	0.000050523	7	170	-92%
1951	180	0.000048863	8	172	-91%
1952	164	0.000043181	8	156	-90%
1953	169	0.000043855	8	161	-91%
1954	191	0.000047981		191	-100%
1955	158	0.000039352	9	149	-89%
1956	183	0.000044385	7	176	-92%
1957	145	0.000034506	5	140	-93%
1958	170	0.000041123	5	165	-94%
1959	139	0.00003343	7	132	-90%
1960	139	0.000033463		139	-100%
1961	138	0.000033315	6	132	-91%
1962	140	0.000034693	10	130	-86%
1963	165	0.000041686	7	158	-92%
1964	132	0.000033954		132	-100%
1965	121	0.000033375	8	113	-87%
1966	127	0.00003654		127	-100%
1967	140	0.000041238		140	-100%
1968	130	0.00003848	6	124	-91%
1969	158	0.000045463	8	150	-90%
1970	165	0.000045751	9	156	-89%
1971	202	0.000058852	11	191	-89%
1972	172	0.000054725	9	163	-90%
1973	142	0.000047068	11	131	-85%
1974	156	0.000051316	14	142	-82%
1975	172	0.000056965	10	162	-88%
1976	172	0.000056685	14	158	-84%
1977	132	0.000041555	11	121	-83%
1978	80	0.000025206	9	71	-77%
1979	65	0.000019537		65	-100%
1980	101	0.000029322	8	93	-84%
1981	97	0.00002804	11	86	-77%
1982	131	0.000037344	12	119	-82%
1983	126	0.000036381	9	117	-86%
1984	152	0.000043569	15	137	-80%
1985	201	0.000056317	24	177	-76%
1986	203	0.000057069	21	182	-79%
1987	240	0.000066563	27	213	-77%
1988	280	0.000075777	15	265	-89%
1989	316	0.000082196	22	294	-86%
1990	366	0.0000926	32	334	-83%
1991	432	0.000110904	41	391	-81%
1992	517	0.000134591	30	487	-88%
1993	594	0.000157548	44	550	-85%
1994	588	0.000158164	44	544	-85%
1995	978	0.000267056	59	919	-88%
1996	1282	0.000351503	66	1216	-90%
1997	1601	0.000441564	61	1540	-92%
1998	1863	0.000506497	63	1800	-93%
1999	2027	0.000548747	83	1944	-92%
2000	2641	0.000698695	91	2550	-93%
2001	3515	0.000938988	80	3435	-95%
2002	3546	0.000948562	66	3480	-96%
2003	4272	0.001123525	101	4171	-95%
2004	5123	0.001340776	114	5009	-96%
2005	6019	0.001565473	120	5899	-96%
2006	6556	0.00165715	123	6433	-96%
2007	6203	0.001551649	102	6101	-97%
2008	7173	0.001824882	104	7069	-97%
2009	8292	0.002170581	119	8173	-97%
2010	8324	0.002252324	160	8164	-96%
2011	8803	0.002406643	195	8608	-96%
2012	9518	0.002602419	246	9272	-95%
2013	9889	0.002712535	300	9589	-94%
2014	11045	0.00298	355	10690	-94%
2015	11395	0.003078971	581	10814	-90%
2016	10920	0.002976533	702	10218	-87%
2017	10433	0.002917347	602	9831	-88%
2018	10037	0.002854748	655	9382	-87%
2019	9293	0.002677378	611	8682	-87%
2020	8162	0.002443291	587	7575	-86%
2021	7824	0.002309362	622	7202	-84%
2022	6909	0.002042189	553	6356	-84%
2023	6464	0.001952165	594	5870	-82%
2024	6871	0.002064293	604	6267	-82%

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