Carrington
#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 59.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 197 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,663since 1968
Carrington over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #4,507 | 30 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #3,272 | 48 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #4,076 | 35 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #2,829 | 60 | #3,990 | 26 |
| 2015 | #2,524 | 71 | #4,179 | 24 |
| 2014 | #2,236 | 84 | #3,787 | 27 |
| 2013 | #1,834 | 110 | #3,864 | 26 |
| 2012 | #2,028 | 95 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #1,909 | 104 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #1,873 | 108 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #1,792 | 120 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #2,042 | 101 | #3,646 | 29 |
| 2007 | #2,085 | 97 | #3,250 | 34 |
| 2006 | #1,933 | 104 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | #2,457 | 71 | #3,091 | 33 |
| 2004 | #2,020 | 91 | #3,456 | 27 |
| 2003 | #2,106 | 83 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | #1,805 | 99 | #2,295 | 45 |
| 2001 | #1,360 | 140 | #1,871 | 59 |
| 2000 | #1,053 | 197 | #1,541 | 78 |
| 1999 | #1,169 | 166 | #1,342 | 89 |
| 1998 | #1,921 | 79 | #2,235 | 40 |
| 1997 | #2,481 | 52 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #1,915 | 75 | #1,817 | 50 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | #1,801 | 48 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 | #1,734 | 51 |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 | #1,601 | 56 |
| 1992 | #3,503 | 31 | #1,429 | 64 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | #1,502 | 58 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 | #1,294 | 73 |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | #1,382 | 63 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #1,671 | 42 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #1,563 | 45 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #1,493 | 45 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | #2,171 | 25 |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,071 | 14 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,518 | 19 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | — | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | — | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
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| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,300 | 13 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,037 | 8 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
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| 1950 | — | #2,321 | 11 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
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| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,159 | 11 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,326 | 10 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,147 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
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| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,092 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1968
The first year at least five girls were named Carrington! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,246 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #6,546)
- 2,468 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #6,546)
- 4,022 spots since 2015 (#2,524 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
32 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2000 at #1,053 (197 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,218
- Highest: 1 in 9,218 girls born in 2000 were named Carrington (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 41.4% of all girls named Carrington (1,103) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1996
- Mostly boys until 1995, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #7,016 (1968) | #7,016 |
| 1970s | 18 | #7,388 (1971) | #8,035 |
| 1980s | 49 | #4,848 (1989) | #7,694 |
| 1990s | 565 | #1,169 (1999) | #2,851 |
| 2000s | 1,103 | #1,053 (2000) | #1,865 |
| 2010s | 766 | #1,834 (2013) | #2,573 |
| 2020s | 157 | #4,078 (2020) | #5,081 |
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.
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