Carlita
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1953 · 26 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,385since 1914
Carlita over time
Rank among girls' names. Carlita has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 |
| 1989 | #4,522 | 20 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #2,398 | 41 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 |
| 1981 | #3,340 | 25 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 |
| 1979 | #2,724 | 32 |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 |
| 1977 | #2,715 | 30 |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 |
| 1975 | #2,232 | 37 |
| 1974 | #2,497 | 30 |
| 1973 | #2,064 | 39 |
| 1972 | #2,022 | 39 |
| 1971 | #2,175 | 37 |
| 1970 | #2,307 | 33 |
| 1969 | #2,768 | 23 |
| 1968 | #2,969 | 19 |
| 1967 | #2,963 | 18 |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 |
| 1963 | #2,704 | 21 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 |
| 1961 | #2,543 | 23 |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 |
| 1958 | #2,663 | 19 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1956 | #2,389 | 22 |
| 1955 | #2,971 | 15 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1952 | #3,201 | 12 |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
| 1937 | #3,146 | 8 |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #4,851 | 5 |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | — | |
| 1915 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 |
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| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Carlita! It came in at #3,188, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1919, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Carlita
- 1,477 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #14,942)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1953 at #2,017 (26 births)
- Births halved by 1954, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 37,390 girls born in 1973 were named Carlita (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,017 in 1953, was only 1 in 72,358 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.1% of all girls named Carlita (334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #3,188 (1914) | #3,999 |
| 1920s | 38 | #3,394 (1929) | #4,291 |
| 1930s | 60 | #2,689 (1936) | #3,346 |
| 1940s | 84 | #2,737 (1940) | #3,346 |
| 1950s | 143 | #2,017 (1953) | #3,133 |
| 1960s | 191 | #2,530 (1964) | #2,928 |
| 1970s | 334 | #2,022 (1972) | #2,432 |
| 1980s | 213 | #2,398 (1985) | #4,106 |
| 1990s | 149 | #4,120 (1990) | #6,578 |
| 2000s | 103 | #6,576 (2003) | #9,566 |
| 2010s | 44 | #10,235 (2013) | #14,296 |
| 2020s | 15 | #14,942 (2025) | #15,129 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Carlita in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
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1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 39,006 of them was named Carlita, which outranked 79.1% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,989Tawnia40
- #1,989Travis40
- #1,989Wendee40
- #2,022Carlita39
- #2,022Angele39
- #2,022Arica39
- #2,022Arnetta39
- #2,057Anya38
- #2,057Arleen38
- #2,057Astrid38
Tied with 34 names at #2,022; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.