Carlette
Carlette was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 1,019 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,516, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1966, the peak
Carlette peaked in 1966, when 45 girls were given it, #1,671 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #14,516 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,863 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,689 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,744 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,783 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,433 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,965 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,138 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,785 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,395 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 11 | #6,218 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,075 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,364 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,190 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,243 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,023 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,544 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,652 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,253 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,652 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,556 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,280 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,766 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,694 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,755 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,487 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,020 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,932 | 24.9 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,095 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,852 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,671 | 26.6 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,692 | 24.9 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,486 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,955 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,314 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,252 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,953 | 16.8 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,237 | 12.8 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,989 | 15.4 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,223 | 12.2 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,634 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,738 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,039 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,832 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,132 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,399 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,796 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,746 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,164 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,780 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,707 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,426 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,644 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,718 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,789 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlette, and how old are they?
An estimated 886 Americans named Carlette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 51 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 924 people named Carlette (910 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 926 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,887 babies since 1880, Carlette is the third most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Carlette (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 Carlette
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 Carlette and names like it
- Compare Carlette and CarlottaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCarlette peaked in 1966.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlette since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Carlette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carlette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.