Carl
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#1,134
down −102 places
2025 births
187
down −29 births
All-time births
504,827
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1956
- 8,313 births
- Best rank
- #22
- in 1894
- First recorded
- 1880
- #42 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1946
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19568,313#48Peak
- 19558,294#47
- 19578,192#49
- 19548,137#47
- 19478,050#40
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #22 in 1894 · peak births 8,313 in 1956
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
504,827 boys · 3,190 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Carl has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.