Carrington — #5317 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Carrington

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,646 babies named Carrington between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carrington currently holds the #5317 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 197 babies received it in a single year. Carrington is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,811 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carrington performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Carrington shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 257 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Carrington in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carrington 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 2,646 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.