Carver
Carver is given to both girls and boys: 16 girls and 117 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,897 among girls’ names and #1,499 among boys’, #2,918 among all names counting both); 3,263 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,990 Americans named Carver and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carver by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carver?
#1,499 among boys’ names, 2025
Carver fell from #1,272 in 2015 to #1,499 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 73.6 to 68.5 per million.
153 babies in 2018, the peak
Carver peaked in 2018, when 153 babies were given it (143 boys, #1,284 among boys’ names). The 133 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,499 | 68.5 |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,460 | 72.0 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,433 | 74.2 |
| 2022 | 121 | #1,497 | 69.3 |
| 2021 | 130 | #1,408 | 74.3 |
| 2020 | 120 | #1,438 | 69.5 |
| 2019 | 125 | #1,407 | 69.7 |
| 2018 | 143 | #1,284 | 78.7 |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,302 | 75.1 |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,296 | 73.8 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 141 | #1,272 | 73.6 |
| 2014 | 121 | #1,398 | 63.0 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,495 | 57.6 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,552 | 53.8 |
| 2011 | 91 | #1,658 | 47.9 |
| 2010 | 97 | #1,614 | 50.6 |
| 2009 | 89 | #1,731 | 44.9 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,028 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,981 | 34.2 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,183 | 28.7 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,943 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 63 | #1,933 | 31.7 |
| 2003 | 48 | #2,238 | 24.3 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,065 | 26.8 |
| 2001 | 38 | #2,526 | 19.6 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,549 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 32 | #2,668 | 16.7 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,863 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,753 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,910 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,569 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,927 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,738 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,936 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,569 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,701 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,077 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,842 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,095 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,413 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,044 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,734 | 3.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,921 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,966 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,501 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,086 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,309 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,143 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,024 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,589 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,085 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,349 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,568 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,067 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,034 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,649 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,239 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,205 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,412 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,699 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,388 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,068 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,824 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,042 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,262 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,419 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,451 | 15.6 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,748 | 11.7 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,491 | 15.4 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,054 | 9.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,365 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,743 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,971 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 7 | #2,908 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,707 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,903 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,727 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,776 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,572 | 9.1 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,137 | 6.7 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,608 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,241 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 9 | #2,945 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,293 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 6 | #3,941 | 5.3 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,926 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,937 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #3,889 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,799 | 6.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #3,992 | 5.6 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,969 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,607 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Carver a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,263 Americans recorded as Carver, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carver: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carver, and how old are they?
2,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,263 Americans ever recorded as Carver. The median Carver alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,254 people named Carver (91 women and girls, 2,163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,274 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 46 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 89 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 125 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 932 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,750 |
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 Carver born?
The states with the most babies named Carver are Iowa, Texas and Utah, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Iowa and Utah are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 15 | #261 | 6.3× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,569 | 0.3× |
| Utah | 7 | #569 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #700 | 0.6× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #831 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,305 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 5 | #967 | 0.4× |
Where Carver is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carver is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1912 it was given 6.3 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 Carver 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,720 babies since 1880, Carver is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 133 of their 152 babies (88%), again the most given.
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 Carver
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 Carver and names like it
- Compare Carver and KarverBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCarver peaked in 2018.
- Iowa’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carver since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Carver.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Carver alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.