Carver — #1481 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Carver

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,042 babies named Carver between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carver currently holds the #1481 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 143 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carver performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,208 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Carver shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Iowa, which accounts for 226 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Carver in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carver 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 3,042 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.