Karson — #397 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Karson

The Social Security Administration has registered 20,690 babies named Karson between 1966 and 2024, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Karson currently holds the #397 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 1,344 babies received it in a single year. Karson is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,063 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karson performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10,699 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Karson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,913 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Karson in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karson 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 20,690 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.