Carver
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #1,499 for boys in 2025, 117 births
Given to boys 96.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 141 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,161since 1912
Carver over time
Rank among boys' names. Carver 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 | #6,838 | 16 | #1,499 | 117 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #1,459 | 124 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #1,432 | 127 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #1,496 | 121 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #1,407 | 130 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #1,437 | 120 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,407 | 125 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #1,282 | 143 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #1,300 | 139 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #1,271 | 141 |
| 2014 | — | #1,396 | 121 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,492 | 109 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,551 | 102 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,656 | 91 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,612 | 97 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,731 | 89 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,028 | 69 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,972 | 71 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,176 | 59 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,943 | 65 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,934 | 63 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,238 | 48 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,068 | 52 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,520 | 38 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,665 | 32 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,851 | 28 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,738 | 18 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,559 | 18 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,697 | 12 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
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| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,538 | 11 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,391 | 11 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,367 | 11 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,027 | 14 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,403 | 10 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,445 | 21 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,738 | 16 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,486 | 22 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,042 | 13 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,333 | 10 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,736 | 16 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,958 | 13 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,542 | 9 | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #2,904 | 9 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Carver! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Carver
- 40 spots since 2024 (#1,459 → #1,499)
- 62 spots since 2020 (#1,437 → #1,499)
- 228 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #1,499)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2015 at #1,271 (141 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,700 boys born in 2018 were named Carver (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,599 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,271 in 2015, was only 1 in 13,594 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.2% of all boys named Carver (1,208) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 22 | #2,544 (1912) | #3,273 |
| 1920s | 49 | #2,904 (1926) | #3,779 |
| 1930s | 64 | #1,958 (1939) | #2,798 |
| 1940s | 142 | #1,445 (1945) | #2,026 |
| 1950s | 72 | #2,367 (1951) | #3,044 |
| 1960s | 48 | #2,538 (1961) | #3,086 |
| 1970s | 31 | #3,282 (1970) | #4,861 |
| 1980s | 38 | #4,973 (1984) | #5,928 |
| 1990s | 171 | #2,665 (1999) | #4,041 |
| 2000s | 577 | #1,731 (2009) | #2,215 |
| 2010s | 1,208 | #1,271 (2015) | #1,426 |
| 2020s | 739 | #1,407 (2021) | #1,455 |
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.
Carver in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 223,137 of them was named Carver, which outranked 38.1% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,866Zuhra9
- #10,866Zuree9
- #10,866Zyia9
- #11,835Carver8
- #11,835Aadhira8
- #11,835Aakriti8
- #11,835Aalayiah8
- #13,006Aabha7
- #13,006Aadvika7
- #13,006Aaila7
Tied with 1,170 names at #11,835; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 13,594 of them was named Carver, which outranked 91.0% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,266Colter142
- #1,266Monroe142
- #1,266Vince142
- #1,271Carver141
- #1,271Bently141
- #1,271Diesel141
- #1,271Eamon141
- #1,279Cale140
- #1,279Perry140
- #1,279Sheldon140
Tied with 7 names at #1,271; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.