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 | |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 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 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 18,150 of them was named Carrington, which outranked 90.0% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,791Tierney100
- #1,791Tyla100
- #1,791Ysabella100
- #1,805Carrington99
- #1,805Alexcia99
- #1,805Angelena99
- #1,805Audrianna99
- #1,821Alesha98
- #1,821Amethyst98
- #1,821Amie98
Tied with 15 names at #1,805; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 43,145 of them was named Carrington, which outranked 81.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,249Willy46
- #2,249Wylie46
- #2,249Zamir46
- #2,295Carrington45
- #2,295Akira45
- #2,295Alexsander45
- #2,295Avinash45
- #2,337Aamir44
- #2,337Abe44
- #2,337Adiel44
Tied with 41 names at #2,295; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.