Cartel — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cartel

The Social Security Administration has registered 134 babies named Cartel between 1998 and 2022, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cartel currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cartel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Cartel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cartel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cartel 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 134 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.