Carletta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carletta

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,060 babies named Carletta between 1914 and 2022, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carletta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 98 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carletta performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 625 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Carletta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 173 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Carletta in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carletta 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 3,060 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.