Carlita
Carlita was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,370 among girls’ names; 1,385 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Carlita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 36 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlita?
#15,370 among girls’ names, 2025
Carlita rose from #16,962 in 2015 to #15,370 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
41 babies in 1985, the peak
Carlita peaked in 1985, when 41 girls were given it, #2,405 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,370 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,641 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,721 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,999 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,131 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,487 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,962 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,064 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,410 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,739 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #15,768 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,255 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,212 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,267 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,819 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,645 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,617 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,495 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,281 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,236 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,093 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,450 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,250 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,232 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,477 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,831 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,698 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,984 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,131 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,532 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,642 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,880 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,564 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,405 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,507 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,500 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,351 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,353 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,522 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,733 | 19.9 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,109 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,724 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,492 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,236 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,503 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,068 | 26.7 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,025 | 25.6 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,178 | 22.2 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,313 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,776 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,978 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,977 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,950 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,765 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,535 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,712 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,935 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,554 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,227 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,401 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,674 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,722 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,396 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,990 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,214 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,021 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,221 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,746 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,412 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,625 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,272 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,248 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,635 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,788 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,850 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,841 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,759 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,173 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,489 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,179 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,711 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,810 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,802 | 6.0 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,533 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,385 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,430 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,468 | 6.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,946 | 4.2 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,121 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,227 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,017 | 5.8 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,923 | 4.3 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,251 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlita, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,385 Americans ever recorded as Carlita. The median Carlita alive today is 49 years old; half are between 36 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 1,424 people named Carlita (1,415 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,207 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 37 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 226 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 417 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 293 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 145 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 52 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 13,644 babies since 1880, Carlita is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 81 babies (6.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Carlita
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 Carlita and names like it
- Compare Carlita and CarlottaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sCarlita peaked in 1985.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlita since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Carlita.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carlita alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.