Carle
Carle was last recorded in 2007, when 5 babies were given it; 606 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,729, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1920, the peak
Carle peaked in 1920, when 20 boys were given it, #1,760 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #18,136 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,085 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,864 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,950 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,086 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,710 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,015 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,701 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,607 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,430 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 8 | #8,500 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,720 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,274 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,343 | 6 | #5,729 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,511 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,650 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #5,719 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,936 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,478 | 6 | #4,453 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,806 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 9 | #2,799 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 8 | #3,019 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 9 | #2,809 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,654 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,960 | 9 | #2,884 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,118 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 12 | #2,442 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,065 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,001 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 9 | #2,795 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #2,984 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 9 | #2,732 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 15 | #2,017 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 9 | #2,687 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,392 | 11 | #2,330 |
| 1948 | under 5 | 10 | #2,462 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 9 | #2,685 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,587 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,633 | 13 | #1,940 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,494 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 7 | #2,995 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,633 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,568 | |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,444 | 5 | #3,519 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,552 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 10 | #2,350 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 8 | #2,706 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #2,901 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 10 | #2,409 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 8 | #2,773 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 8 | #2,776 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 7 | #3,126 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 8 | #2,895 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 13 | #2,198 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 15 | #2,013 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 11 | #2,535 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 9 | #2,938 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 7 | #3,438 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 9 | #2,958 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 9 | #3,052 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #3,873 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,289 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 12 | #2,511 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 20 | #1,760 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,245 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 6 | #3,790 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 12 | #2,303 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 11 | #2,404 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 6 | #3,460 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 6 | #2,320 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 5 | #1,234 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Carle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 606 Americans recorded as Carle, 24% are girls and 76% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carle, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Carle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 38 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 523 people named Carle (265 women and girls, 258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 328 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Carle rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 21,738 babies since 1880, Carle is the fourth most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 326 babies recorded by SSA was a Carle (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carle and names like it
- Compare Carle and CarloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sCarle peaked in 1920.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Carle.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carle alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.