Karder — boys' name
315 babies named Karder in U.S. Social Security records since 2005, with the highest year being 2014. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
72% of everyone ever named Karder was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Karder in 2014 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Karder
The Social Security Administration has registered 315 babies named Karder between 2005 and 2023, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Karder currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Karder performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 227 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Karder shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Indiana, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Karder in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Karder 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 315 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.
Karder at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Karder popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2005
- Peak year (2014)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
315 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2014 with 30 births in a single year.
Karder popularity over time — girls
13 total births recorded since 2014 (Karder as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Karder accounts for 4% of total recorded use across both genders.
Karder by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 227 births that decade — 72% of Karder's all-time total
Karder decade highlights
- Peak decade 227 births
- Runner-up 49 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Karder's strongest decade
227 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 72% of all-time use.
Karder by state
Where Karder concentrates geographically — total births since 2005
Top 5 states
- Indiana 1.6% of nationwide
- Ohio 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Indiana accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2005–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.