Carlyle — #5653 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carlyle

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,836 babies named Carlyle between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carlyle currently holds the #5653 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 115 babies received it in a single year. Carlyle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 215 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlyle performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 791 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Carlyle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 185 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Carlyle in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlyle 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 3,836 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.