Carlito
Carlito was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,730 among boys’ names; 1,352 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Carlito and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlito by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carlito mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Carlito is “a diminutive of the male given name Carlos, from Spanish, equivalent to English Charlie”
Borrowed from Spanish Carlito.
/kaɾˈlito/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carlito?
#4,730 among boys’ names, 2025
Carlito fell from #2,688 in 2015 to #4,730 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.5 to 12.3 per million.
92 babies in 2006, the peak
Carlito peaked in 2006, when 92 boys were given it, #1,585 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,730 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,470 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,599 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,664 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,808 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,723 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,358 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,060 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,320 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,069 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,688 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,156 | 32.8 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,493 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,779 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 46 | #2,635 | 24.2 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,473 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 55 | #2,352 | 27.7 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,128 | 31.4 |
| 2007 | 77 | #1,865 | 37.1 |
| 2006 | 92 | #1,585 | 44.8 |
| 2005 | 51 | #2,298 | 25.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,647 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,633 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,027 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,857 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,576 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,115 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,103 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 39 | #2,202 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,379 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,251 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,626 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,736 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,752 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,388 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,496 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,558 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,083 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,447 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,993 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,405 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,552 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,837 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,143 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,006 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,871 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,312 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,748 | 5.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,021 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,277 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,021 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,280 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,124 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlito a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlito has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlito: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlito, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,352 Americans ever recorded as Carlito. The median Carlito alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,157 people named Carlito (7 women and girls, 2,150 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 155 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 693 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 400 |
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,428 babies since 1880, Carlito is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 21 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Carlito
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 Carlito and names like it
- Compare Carlito and KarlitoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCarlito peaked in 2006.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlito since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Carlito: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Carlito.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carlito alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.