Carman — unisex name

What the Data Says About Carman

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,407 babies named Carman between 1914 and 2022, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carman currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 77 babies received it in a single year. Carman is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,084 additional births since 1901.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carman performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 540 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Carman shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 53 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Carman in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carman 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 2,407 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.