Carsten
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #4,249 for boys in 2025, 24 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 129 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,367since 1912
Carsten over time
Rank among boys' names. Carsten has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,249 | 24 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,474 | 33 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,962 | 42 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | — | #2,310 | 59 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,282 | 59 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,798 | 43 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,086 | 67 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,790 | 84 |
| 2014 | — | #1,657 | 93 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,500 | 108 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,367 | 123 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,319 | 129 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,425 | 116 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,708 | 91 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,441 | 115 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,593 | 98 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,738 | 80 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,081 | 59 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,815 | 68 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,055 | 55 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,249 | 46 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,982 | 54 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,256 | 43 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,608 | 33 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,394 | 36 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,750 | 28 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,678 | 18 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,030 | 23 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,141 | 21 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,309 | 18 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,201 | 15 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,882 | 11 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,836 | 9 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,659 | 9 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #3,223 | 10 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,534 | 14 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,985 | 8 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,627 | 10 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,310 | 13 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #3,356 | 7 | |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | — | ||
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| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
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| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | #3,252 | 6 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
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| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
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| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | #2,269 | 6 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Carsten! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Carsten
- 452 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #4,249)
- 1,812 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #4,249)
- 2,459 spots since 2015 (#1,790 → #4,249)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2011 at #1,319 (129 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,723 boys born in 2011 were named Carsten (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 71,170 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.2% of all boys named Carsten (881) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | #2,269 (1912) | #2,966 |
| 1920s | 59 | #2,772 (1923) | #3,693 |
| 1930s | 19 | #3,004 (1933) | #3,123 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 15 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,871 |
| 1960s | 75 | #2,310 (1964) | #3,101 |
| 1970s | 63 | #2,534 (1972) | #3,813 |
| 1980s | 78 | #3,201 (1987) | #4,309 |
| 1990s | 230 | #2,394 (1998) | #3,201 |
| 2000s | 709 | #1,441 (2008) | #1,892 |
| 2010s | 881 | #1,319 (2011) | #1,853 |
| 2020s | 212 | #2,437 (2020) | #3,483 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Carsten in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 323,310 of them was named Carsten, which outranked 13.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,439 names at #15,088; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 32,567 of them was named Carsten, which outranked 82.7% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,419Rashawn54
- #2,419Rip54
- #2,419Yasiel54
- #2,437Carsten53
- #2,437Abe53
- #2,437Ahron53
- #2,437Chancellor53
- #2,467Acen52
- #2,467Adriano52
- #2,467Armias52
Tied with 29 names at #2,437; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.