Carlisle — #3269 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carlisle

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,826 babies named Carlisle between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carlisle currently holds the #3269 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 47 babies received it in a single year. Carlisle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 458 additional births since 1944.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlisle performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 365 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carlisle shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 156 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Carlisle in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlisle 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 1,826 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.