US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Carlton name popularity

Carlton has been given to 49,167 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1957, when 962 babies got the name, and its best rank was #484 in 1937.

In 2025, 43 babies were named Carlton (#6,196 in the country), 96% below the peak. That is down 57% from 2015.

Almost every Carlton is a boy.

An estimated 32K people named Carlton are alive in the US today, with a median age of 59.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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