Carlyon
Carlyon was last recorded in 1973, when 7 babies were given it; 513 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlyon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlyon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,753, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1946, the peak
Carlyon peaked in 1946, when 26 girls were given it, #1,775 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 7 | #6,753 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,491 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,097 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,749 | 5.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,522 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,578 | 7.7 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,604 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,824 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,446 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,763 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 12 | #3,722 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,061 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,102 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,337 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,351 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,557 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,789 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,285 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,506 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,486 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,008 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,074 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,905 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,093 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,775 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,882 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,218 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,841 | 15.8 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,226 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,820 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,550 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,477 | 6.4 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,138 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,803 | 6.0 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,105 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlyon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlyon has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlyon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlyon, and how old are they?
An estimated 359 Americans named Carlyon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 64 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Carlyon (206 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 406 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 580,845 babies since 1880, Carlyon is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 270 babies recorded by SSA was a Carlyon (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Carlyon
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 Carlyon and names like it
- Compare Carlyon and CarolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCarlyon peaked in 1946.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlyon since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Carlyon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carlyon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.