Carson — #124 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carson

The Social Security Administration has registered 129,861 babies named Carson between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carson currently holds the #124 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 5,259 babies received it in a single year. Carson is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7,916 additional births since 1947.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 48,019 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 9,841 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Carson in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carson 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 129,861 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.