Carrington
Carrington is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 12 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,591 among girls’ names and #6,872 among boys’, #8,107 among all names counting both); 4,481 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Carrington every year since 1996.
An estimated 4,270 Americans named Carrington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carrington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carrington?
#6,591 among girls’ names, 2025
Carrington fell from #2,529 in 2015 to #6,591 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.8 to 10.6 per million.
275 babies in 2000, the peak
Carrington peaked in 2000, when 275 babies were given it (197 girls, #1,054 among girls’ names). The 29 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,591 | 12 | #6,872 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,327 | 10 | #7,862 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,773 | 11 | #7,357 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,343 | 21 | #4,728 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,527 | 21 | #4,652 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,095 | 15 | #5,748 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,288 | 13 | #6,469 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,090 | 14 | #6,081 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,156 | 22 | #4,489 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,836 | 26 | #4,007 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,529 | 24 | #4,191 |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,241 | 27 | #3,802 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,836 | 26 | #3,878 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,032 | 36 | #3,120 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,913 | 28 | #3,706 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,876 | 25 | #4,010 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,795 | 21 | #4,606 |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,043 | 29 | #3,658 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,089 | 34 | #3,264 |
| 2006 | 104 | #1,934 | 36 | #3,033 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,458 | 33 | #3,094 |
| 2004 | 91 | #2,019 | 27 | #3,461 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,104 | 32 | #2,996 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,806 | 45 | #2,294 |
| 2001 | 140 | #1,360 | 59 | #1,870 |
| 2000 | 197 | #1,054 | 78 | #1,539 |
| 1999 | 166 | #1,168 | 89 | #1,340 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,922 | 40 | #2,236 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,483 | 43 | #2,063 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,916 | 50 | #1,817 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,366 | 48 | #1,800 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,024 | 51 | #1,731 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,431 | 56 | #1,596 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,506 | 64 | #1,430 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,660 | 58 | #1,498 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,081 | 73 | #1,293 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,882 | 63 | #1,378 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,401 | 42 | #1,668 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,017 | 45 | #1,565 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,654 | 45 | #1,494 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,078 | 25 | #2,177 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,254 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 14 | #3,090 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 19 | #2,523 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,638 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 9 | #4,185 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,702 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,298 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,314 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,495 | 10 | #3,177 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,810 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 9 | #3,092 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,132 | 5 | #4,212 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,658 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,316 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,152 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 8 | #3,070 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,031 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,066 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,496 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #2,936 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 11 | #2,332 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 7 | #3,043 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,420 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,223 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,899 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,572 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,526 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 11 | #2,182 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 10 | #2,353 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,599 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,196 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,112 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 8 | #3,168 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,290 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,326 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,291 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,432 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,388 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 5 | #4,251 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 7 | #3,268 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,565 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 8 | #2,118 |
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 Carrington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,481 Americans recorded as Carrington, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carrington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carrington, and how old are they?
4,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,481 Americans ever recorded as Carrington. The median Carrington alive today is 24 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,721 people named Carrington (2,316 women and girls, 1,405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,071 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 57 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 59 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 952 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 852 |
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).
Where are babies named Carrington born?
The states with the most babies named Carrington are Texas, Virginia and Georgia, with 46% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 355 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 220 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 208 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 180 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 138 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Alabama | 85 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 74 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 68 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 57 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Carrington is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carrington is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1913 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carrington with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,373 babies since 1880, Carrington is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 45 babies (64%), again the most given.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrington | 4,481 | 29 | 2000 |
| Karrington | 1,734 | 16 | 1999 |
| Karington | 158 | under 5 | 2000 |
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 Carrington
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 Carrington and names like it
- Compare Carrington and KarringtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCarrington peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carrington since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Carrington.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carrington alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.