Carter
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#45
up +1 places
2025 births
6,024
down −265 births
All-time births
206,833
3% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2015
- 10,814 births
- Best rank
- #24
- in 2015
- First recorded
- 1881
- #506 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2010
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 144 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201510,814#24Peak
- 201410,691#27
- 201610,220#26
- 20179,833#24
- 20139,590#33
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #24 in 2015 · peak births 10,814 in 2015
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 95% boys■ 5% girls
206,833 boys · 10,038 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 Carter has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.