Carlin — #6828 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carlin

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,613 babies named Carlin between 1905 and 2024, spanning 120 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carlin currently holds the #6828 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 62 babies received it in a single year. Carlin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,922 additional births since 1920.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlin performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 469 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Carlin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 70 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Carlin in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlin 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 2,613 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.