Decarlos
Decarlos was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,970 among boys’ names; 1,215 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Decarlos and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 24 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Decarlos by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Decarlos?
#10,970 among boys’ names, 2025
Decarlos fell from #9,785 in 2015 to #10,970 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 3.5 per million.
43 babies in 1975, the peak
Decarlos peaked in 1975, when 43 boys were given it, #1,325 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,970 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,751 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,110 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,187 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,964 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,802 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,970 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,084 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,304 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,813 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #9,785 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,166 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,022 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,311 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,318 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,428 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,964 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,543 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,046 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,253 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,356 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,891 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,140 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,691 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,244 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,091 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,194 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,870 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,368 | 11.1 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,043 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,330 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,702 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 28 | #2,587 | 14.3 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,314 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,480 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,092 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,549 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 18 | #2,986 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,899 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,239 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,027 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,052 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,715 | 18.4 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,011 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,097 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,703 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 40 | #1,491 | 23.2 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,807 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,017 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 43 | #1,356 | 27.4 |
| 1975 | 43 | #1,325 | 27.5 |
| 1974 | 31 | #1,595 | 19.7 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,554 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,455 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,070 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,419 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,571 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,268 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,177 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Decarlos a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Decarlos has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Decarlos: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Decarlos, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,215 Americans ever recorded as Decarlos. The median Decarlos alive today is 35 years old; half are between 24 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 829 people named Decarlos (11 women and girls, 818 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,132 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 309 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 412 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 319 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 108 |
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Decarlos
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 Decarlos and names like it
- Compare Decarlos and ShainBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDecarlos peaked in 1975.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Decarlos since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Decarlos.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Decarlos alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.