Carron — unisex name

What the Data Says About Carron

The Social Security Administration has registered 459 babies named Carron between 1938 and 1990, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carron currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1942, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Carron is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 98 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carron performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Carron shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Carron in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carron 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 459 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.