Carel — #9036 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carel

The Social Security Administration has registered 166 babies named Carel between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carel currently holds the #9036 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Carel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 60 additional births since 1924.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carel performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 40 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Carel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 166 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.