How popular is “Karter” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Karter” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Karter” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1985	5	0.000001401		5	-100%
1990	9	0.000002277		9	-100%
1991	5	0.000001284		5	-100%
1992	15	0.000003905		15	-100%
1993	14	0.000003713		14	-100%
1994	12	0.000003228		12	-100%
1995	19	0.000005188		19	-100%
1996	26	0.000007129		26	-100%
1997	45	0.000012411	6	39	-73%
1998	42	0.000011419	11	31	-48%
1999	54	0.000014619	12	42	-56%
2000	68	0.00001799	11	57	-68%
2001	111	0.000029652	9	102	-84%
2002	119	0.000031833	18	101	-70%
2003	155	0.000040765	16	139	-79%
2004	164	0.000042922	21	143	-74%
2005	212	0.000055139	10	202	-91%
2006	271	0.0000685	32	239	-76%
2007	283	0.000070791	15	268	-89%
2008	385	0.000097948	23	362	-88%
2009	518	0.000135596	52	466	-80%
2010	698	0.000188866	94	604	-73%
2011	813	0.000222265	87	726	-79%
2012	1018	0.000278342	132	886	-74%
2013	1346	0.000369205	167	1179	-75%
2014	2390	0.000644835	274	2116	-77%
2015	2696	0.000728469	410	2286	-70%
2016	2535	0.000690981	410	2125	-68%
2017	2637	0.000737376	351	2286	-73%
2018	2550	0.000725277	312	2238	-76%
2019	2794	0.000804971	370	2424	-74%
2020	2637	0.000789385	297	2340	-77%
2021	2237	0.000660282	319	1918	-71%
2022	2055	0.000607425	312	1743	-70%
2023	1897	0.000572905	302	1595	-68%
2024	1682	0.000505333	257	1425	-69%

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