Carsten — #4703 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carsten

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,341 babies named Carsten between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carsten currently holds the #4703 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 129 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carsten performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 881 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Carsten shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 91 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Carsten in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carsten 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 2,341 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.