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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #3,146 | 10 |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 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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| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #3,452 | 6 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,905 | 8 | |
| 1952 | — | — | ||
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| 1950 | — | #2,321 | 11 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,010 | 7 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 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 | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 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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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.
See more about Carrington
- 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)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2000 at #1,053 (197 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 41.4% of all girls named Carrington (1,103) were born in this decade
- 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.
Carrington in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 23,373 of them was named Carrington, which outranked 88.0% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,898Rosalia76
- #1,898Shantelle76
- #1,898Soraya76
- #1,915Carrington75
- #1,915Alexzandria75
- #1,915Ami75
- #1,915Caley75
- #1,930Ashia74
- #1,930Christopher74
- #1,930Conner74
Tied with 14 names at #1,915; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 37,886 of them was named Carrington, which outranked 82.8% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,785Treyton51
- #1,785Vishal51
- #1,785Zacharie51
- #1,817Carrington50
- #1,817Al50
- #1,817Artemio50
- #1,817Boris50
- #1,842Britt49
- #1,842Carmine49
- #1,842Charley49
Tied with 24 names at #1,817; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.