Carman
Carman was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 3,491 Americans have been recorded with it between 1901 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Carman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 43 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,935, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
88 babies in 1970, the peak
Carman peaked in 1970, when 88 babies were given it (77 girls, #1,354 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #13,935 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,490 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,166 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,861 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,161 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,207 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,337 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,818 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,843 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,216 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 14 | #8,606 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,618 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,034 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,240 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,074 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,906 | 6 | #9,553 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,370 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,256 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,743 | 7 | #7,974 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,986 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,212 | 7 | #7,389 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,102 | 5 | #9,200 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,044 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,048 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,711 | 5 | #8,893 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,708 | 7 | #6,754 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,214 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,132 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,903 | 6 | #7,073 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,023 | 8 | #5,257 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,872 | 6 | #6,197 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,483 | 6 | #6,034 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,020 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,736 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,161 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,457 | 6 | #5,731 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,151 | 6 | #5,598 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,334 | 7 | #5,003 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,310 | 10 | #3,838 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,436 | 6 | #5,145 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,032 | 7 | #4,652 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,701 | 8 | #4,056 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,841 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,735 | 10 | #3,350 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,379 | 7 | #4,118 |
| 1972 | 40 | #1,993 | 9 | #3,381 |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,547 | 8 | #3,701 |
| 1970 | 77 | #1,354 | 11 | #2,913 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,500 | 8 | #3,348 |
| 1968 | 66 | #1,376 | 8 | #3,139 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,643 | 12 | #2,367 |
| 1966 | 58 | #1,448 | 12 | #2,348 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,637 | 9 | #2,811 |
| 1964 | 72 | #1,319 | 6 | #3,657 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,716 | 9 | #2,886 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,673 | 17 | #1,976 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,699 | 13 | #2,335 |
| 1960 | 51 | #1,561 | 14 | #2,221 |
| 1959 | 47 | #1,584 | 23 | #1,669 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,793 | 8 | #3,066 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,846 | 8 | #3,049 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,695 | 13 | #2,281 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,067 | 15 | #2,056 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,312 | 11 | #2,474 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,368 | 25 | #1,516 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,683 | 10 | #2,542 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,707 | 15 | #1,983 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,355 | 13 | #2,124 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,967 | 12 | #2,238 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,165 | 12 | #2,231 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,459 | 10 | #2,519 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,619 | 12 | #2,165 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,076 | 11 | #2,147 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,417 | 12 | #2,094 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,883 | 13 | #2,084 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,842 | 13 | #2,053 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,050 | 11 | #2,222 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,973 | 20 | #1,526 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,618 | 15 | #1,805 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,243 | 16 | #1,752 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,328 | 21 | #1,490 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,756 | 15 | #1,814 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,113 | 17 | #1,717 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,438 | 21 | #1,512 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,142 | 17 | #1,716 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,253 | 13 | #2,111 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,600 | 14 | #2,017 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,567 | 26 | #1,434 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,107 | 12 | #2,331 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,515 | 18 | #1,838 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,591 | 36 | #1,206 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,387 | 27 | #1,407 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,144 | 26 | #1,458 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,058 | 24 | #1,584 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,378 | 30 | #1,328 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,530 | 19 | #1,833 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,079 | 15 | #2,165 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,664 | 15 | #2,150 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,508 | 11 | #2,527 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,273 | 23 | #1,548 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,771 | 17 | #1,823 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 30 | #1,211 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,378 | 28 | #1,241 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,699 | 13 | #1,795 |
| 1913 | under 5 | 15 | #1,379 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 12 | #1,430 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 5 | #1,074 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Carman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,491 Americans recorded as Carman, 69% are girls and 31% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carman, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 68% of the 3,491 Americans ever recorded as Carman. The median Carman alive today is 55 years old; half are between 43 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 3,395 people named Carman (2,821 women and girls, 574 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,533 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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 | 115 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 660 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 894 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 416 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 231 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 42 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 178,597 babies since 1880, Carman is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,115 babies recorded by SSA was a Carman (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 Carman
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 Carman and names like it
- Compare Carman and CarmenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarman peaked in 1970.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carman since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Carman.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carman alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.