Cartier — #1205 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cartier

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,328 babies named Cartier between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cartier currently holds the #1205 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 229 babies received it in a single year. Cartier is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 296 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cartier performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 978 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Cartier shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 228 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Cartier in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cartier 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 2,328 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.