Karlton
Karlton was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 1,529 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Karlton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 32 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karlton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karlton?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,396, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
47 babies in 1991, the peak
Karlton peaked in 1991, when 47 boys were given it, #1,727 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,396 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,326 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,441 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,077 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,135 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,230 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,277 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,880 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,185 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,196 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #7,841 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,431 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,239 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,437 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,826 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,859 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,723 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,872 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,763 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,409 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,021 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,908 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,912 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,268 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,524 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,809 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,252 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,647 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 33 | #2,369 | 17.1 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,312 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,331 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 47 | #1,727 | 23.3 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,276 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,082 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 34 | #1,925 | 17.8 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,192 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,256 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,329 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,203 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,846 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,239 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,727 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,324 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,650 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,609 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,166 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,555 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 31 | #1,644 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 33 | #1,532 | 21.0 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,558 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,998 | 13.0 |
| 1971 | 26 | #1,758 | 14.7 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,727 | 14.0 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,943 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 20 | #1,808 | 11.5 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,734 | 12.0 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,314 | 19.1 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,646 | 12.4 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,522 | 13.5 |
| 1963 | 21 | #1,771 | 10.3 |
| 1962 | 27 | #1,532 | 13.1 |
| 1961 | 27 | #1,559 | 12.7 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,883 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,688 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 24 | #1,619 | 11.3 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,732 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 24 | #1,625 | 11.3 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,367 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 21 | #1,682 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,268 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,607 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,769 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,505 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,706 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,900 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,553 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,088 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,487 | 6.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,834 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,047 | 10.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,290 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,796 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,356 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,455 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,941 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,467 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,570 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,246 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,561 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,961 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,678 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,548 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,702 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,705 | 6.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,217 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,110 | 5.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,051 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Karlton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karlton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karlton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karlton, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,529 Americans ever recorded as Karlton. The median Karlton alive today is 43 years old; half are between 32 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,063 people named Karlton (8 women and girls, 1,055 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 16 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 222 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 337 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 415 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 72 |
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).
How common is the spelling Karlton?
Karlton is a less common spelling of Carlton: SSA has recorded 1,529 Karlton and 49,167 Carlton since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 55,535 babies since 1880, Karlton is the third most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 43 babies recorded by SSA was a Karlton (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Karlton
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 Karlton and names like it
- Compare Karlton and CarltonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarlton peaked in 1991.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karlton since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Karlton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karlton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.