Carsen
Carsen is given to both girls and boys: 30 girls and 65 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,576 among girls’ names and #2,185 among boys’, #3,660 among all names counting both); 5,177 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,120 Americans named Carsen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carsen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carsen?
#2,185 among boys’ names, 2025
Carsen fell from #1,148 in 2015 to #2,185 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 85.6 to 38.1 per million.
259 babies in 2010, the peak
Carsen peaked in 2010, when 259 babies were given it (226 boys, #901 among boys’ names). The 95 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,576 | 65 | #2,185 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,220 | 79 | #1,974 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,777 | 97 | #1,718 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,495 | 102 | #1,680 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,944 | 130 | #1,407 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,188 | 148 | #1,251 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,676 | 165 | #1,172 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,299 | 145 | #1,262 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,573 | 185 | #1,067 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,164 | 189 | #1,046 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,241 | 164 | #1,148 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,914 | 205 | #1,005 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,779 | 191 | #1,021 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,735 | 164 | #1,120 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,163 | 190 | #1,012 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,413 | 226 | #901 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,122 | 209 | #962 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,033 | 196 | #996 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,836 | 160 | #1,124 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,278 | 138 | #1,217 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,597 | 124 | #1,260 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,104 | 121 | #1,245 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,360 | 133 | #1,133 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,071 | 91 | #1,421 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,375 | 121 | #1,142 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,817 | 69 | #1,663 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,701 | 62 | #1,690 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,432 | 35 | #2,458 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,400 | 24 | #3,076 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,513 | 19 | #3,559 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,695 | 19 | #3,441 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,282 | 16 | #3,926 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,238 | 15 | #4,039 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,255 | 12 | #4,596 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,027 | 11 | #4,801 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,383 | 9 | #5,433 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,065 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,201 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #5,891 |
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 Carsen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,177 Americans recorded as Carsen, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carsen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carsen, and how old are they?
5,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,177 Americans ever recorded as Carsen. The median Carsen alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,082 people named Carsen (919 women and girls, 3,163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,370 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 244 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,270 |
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 Carsen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,119 | 0.5× |
Where Carsen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carsen is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1985 it was given 1.6 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 boys’ 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 Carsen 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 175,417 babies since 1880, Carsen is the fourth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 95 of their 4,026 babies (2.4%), again the fourth most given.
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 Carsen
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 Carsen and names like it
- Compare Carsen and CarsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCarsen peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carsen since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Carsen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carsen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.