Karter
#987 for girls in 2025, 256 births · #270 for boys in 2025, 1,265 births
Given to boys 86.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 2,340 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 29,465since 1985
Karter 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 | #987 | 256 | #270 | 1,265 |
| 2024 | #1,001 | 257 | #248 | 1,431 |
| 2023 | #887 | 303 | #225 | 1,597 |
| 2022 | #892 | 312 | #217 | 1,743 |
| 2021 | #860 | 319 | #201 | 1,919 |
| 2020 | #893 | 297 | #162 | 2,340 |
| 2019 | #758 | 370 | #163 | 2,425 |
| 2018 | #870 | 312 | #176 | 2,239 |
| 2017 | #783 | 351 | #174 | 2,286 |
| 2016 | #701 | 410 | #188 | 2,125 |
| 2015 | #692 | 410 | #183 | 2,286 |
| 2014 | #972 | 274 | #194 | 2,117 |
| 2013 | #1,385 | 167 | #299 | 1,179 |
| 2012 | #1,629 | 132 | #349 | 886 |
| 2011 | #2,173 | 87 | #390 | 727 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 | #443 | 604 |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 | #567 | 466 |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | #668 | 362 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | #801 | 268 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | #844 | 239 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #892 | 202 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #1,101 | 143 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #1,103 | 139 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | #1,315 | 101 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #1,287 | 102 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #1,848 | 57 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #2,199 | 42 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #2,201 | 39 |
| 1996 | — | #2,838 | 26 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
| 1994 | — | #4,803 | 12 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,227 | 14 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,382 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Karter! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1985–1989, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Karter
- 22 spots since 2024 (#248 → #270)
- 108 spots since 2020 (#162 → #270)
- 87 spots since 2015 (#183 → #270)
- Biggest jump: 209 spots in 2005 (#1,101 → #892)
- Biggest drop: 39 spots in 2021 (#162 → #201)
- Debuted 1985
- Peaked 2020 at #162 (2,340 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 738 boys born in 2020 were named Karter (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,350 boys born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 57.3% of all boys named Karter (16,874) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,523 (1985) | #6,523 |
| 1990s | 212 | #2,199 (1999) | #3,989 |
| 2000s | 2,079 | #567 (2009) | #1,043 |
| 2010s | 16,874 | #163 (2019) | #256 |
| 2020s | 10,295 | #162 (2020) | #221 |
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.
Karter in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 6,520 of them was named Karter, which outranked 94.9% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #966Riya276
- #970Moriah275
- #970Pyper275
- #972Karter274
- #972Alaysia274
- #972Landry274
- #972Magdalena274
- #977Kylah273
- #977Patience273
- #979Abril272
Tied with 4 names at #972; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 907 of them was named Karter, which outranked 98.6% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.