Cartier
Cartier was given to 150 boys in 2025, #1,297 among boys’ names; 2,785 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,760 Americans named Cartier and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cartier by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cartier?
#1,297 among boys’ names, 2025
Cartier rose from #1,933 in 2015 to #1,297 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 39.1 to 87.8 per million.
246 babies in 2022, the peak
Cartier peaked in 2022, when 246 babies were given it (229 boys, #983 among boys’ names). The 161 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 65% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,974 | 150 | #1,297 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,047 | 168 | #1,205 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,999 | 205 | #1,062 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,769 | 229 | #983 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,859 | 179 | #1,135 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,699 | 188 | #1,064 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,645 | 153 | #1,234 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,908 | 168 | #1,143 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,928 | 131 | #1,362 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,000 | 89 | #1,744 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,071 | 75 | #1,933 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,282 | 100 | #1,577 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,192 | 73 | #1,915 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,589 | 86 | #1,743 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,203 | 52 | #2,407 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,441 | 51 | #2,433 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,617 | 45 | #2,711 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 42 | #2,835 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 36 | #3,140 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,493 | 32 | #3,315 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 14 | #5,610 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 20 | #4,284 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,314 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 13 | #5,436 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,785 | 15 | #4,917 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,458 | 22 | #3,648 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,584 | 14 | #4,791 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,717 | 10 | #5,888 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 18 | #3,752 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 11 | #5,226 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #7,937 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 10 | #5,503 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 10 | #5,401 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,994 | 12 | #4,597 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,589 | 5 | #8,294 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 9 | #5,219 | |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,088 | 8 | #5,262 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,104 | 7 | #5,560 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,150 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,900 | 6 | #5,892 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,374 |
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 Cartier a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,785 Americans recorded as Cartier, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 150 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cartier: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cartier, and how old are they?
2,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,785 Americans ever recorded as Cartier. The median Cartier alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,229 people named Cartier (202 women and girls, 1,027 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,594 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 535 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,100 |
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 Cartier born?
The states with the most babies named Cartier are Ohio, Texas and Michigan, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 18 | #559 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,568 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 10 | #728 | 2.2× |
| New York | 10 | #1,137 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,205 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #793 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,121 | 1.2× |
| Virginia | 7 | #893 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 6 | #724 | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #802 | 1.9× |
Where Cartier is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cartier is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1983 it was given 2.4 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 Cartier 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 255,618 babies since 1880, Cartier is the third most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 161 of their 8,590 babies (1.9%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Cartier
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 Cartier and names like it
- Compare Cartier and CarterBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCartier peaked in 2022.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cartier since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Cartier.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cartier alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.