Karson
#3,577 for girls in 2025, 42 births · #453 for boys in 2025, 690 births
Given to boys 91.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 1,345 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 21,394since 1966
Karson 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,577 | 42 | #453 | 690 |
| 2024 | #3,081 | 52 | #397 | 819 |
| 2023 | #3,274 | 49 | #337 | 987 |
| 2022 | #2,928 | 57 | #339 | 988 |
| 2021 | #3,339 | 47 | #305 | 1,090 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 | #266 | 1,289 |
| 2019 | #2,962 | 55 | #270 | 1,331 |
| 2018 | #2,557 | 68 | #265 | 1,345 |
| 2017 | #2,689 | 64 | #286 | 1,269 |
| 2016 | #2,269 | 84 | #318 | 1,104 |
| 2015 | #2,685 | 66 | #293 | 1,226 |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | #328 | 1,039 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 | #331 | 979 |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 | #363 | 838 |
| 2011 | #2,695 | 65 | #366 | 813 |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 | #380 | 760 |
| 2009 | #2,940 | 59 | #448 | 619 |
| 2008 | #3,316 | 50 | #487 | 566 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 | #541 | 473 |
| 2006 | #3,090 | 54 | #559 | 450 |
| 2005 | #2,314 | 77 | #596 | 379 |
| 2004 | #2,503 | 67 | #603 | 354 |
| 2003 | #2,084 | 85 | #617 | 336 |
| 2002 | #2,527 | 62 | #678 | 270 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 | #703 | 254 |
| 2000 | #1,923 | 88 | #726 | 238 |
| 1999 | #1,596 | 105 | #961 | 150 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 51 | #1,216 | 101 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 | #1,402 | 78 |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 | #1,334 | 81 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 | #1,467 | 66 |
| 1994 | #2,661 | 46 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #2,573 | 48 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | #2,777 | 43 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | #2,295 | 31 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #2,780 | 23 |
| 1989 | — | #2,469 | 26 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,255 | 27 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,942 | 17 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,418 | 7 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Karson! It came in at #3,948, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Karson
- 56 spots since 2024 (#397 → #453)
- 187 spots since 2020 (#266 → #453)
- 160 spots since 2015 (#293 → #453)
- Biggest jump: 255 spots in 1999 (#1,216 → #961)
- Biggest drop: 60 spots in 2024 (#337 → #397)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 2018 at #265 (1,345 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,339 boys born in 2020 were named Karson (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,475 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #265 in 2018, was only 1 in 1,350 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 50.0% of all boys named Karson (10,704) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1993, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #3,948 (1966) | #3,948 |
| 1970s | 40 | #3,810 (1979) | #4,648 |
| 1980s | 149 | #2,255 (1988) | #3,524 |
| 1990s | 694 | #961 (1999) | #1,638 |
| 2000s | 3,939 | #448 (2009) | #596 |
| 2010s | 10,704 | #265 (2018) | #320 |
| 2020s | 5,863 | #266 (2020) | #350 |
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.
Karson in 2004
Top girls' names in 2004
Top boys' names in 2004
More about 2004
girls
1,836,250 girls got a published name in 2004; 1 in 27,407 of them was named Karson, which outranked 86.7% of the 18,835 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,481Shyanna68
- #2,481Takiyah68
- #2,481Torie68
- #2,503Karson67
- #2,503Aaniyah67
- #2,503Adelynn67
- #2,503Amerie67
- #2,526Althea66
- #2,526Audriana66
- #2,526Bianka66
Tied with 22 names at #2,503; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,984,979 boys got a published name in 2004; 1 in 5,607 of them was named Karson, which outranked 95.4% of the 13,228 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).