Carlos
For 2025 the count puts Carlos at #150 nationwide, sitting where it has sat for years. Its record runs from 1880 through a 2001 peak, 307,036 children in all.
What Carlos carries
Carlos · Teutonic
“man”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Carlos’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Carlos, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Carlos since 1880
Carlos peaked in 2001 at #59; #150 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Carlos is most common
The state that gives Carlos most often, per boys born there, is Wyoming (0.46% in 2025); Arizona and Texas are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Carlos
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
Caroline
#96 in 2025 · Teutonic
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Ella
#29 in 2025 · Teutonic
Luis
#144 in 2025 · Teutonic
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
Alejandro
#195 in 2025 · Teutonic
Arabella
#213 in 2025 · Teutonic
Browse: names starting with C · Teutonic names · all names
About Carlos
How common is Carlos today?
For 2025 the count puts Carlos at #150 nationwide, sitting where it has sat for years. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Carlos?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “man”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Carlos?
Aubrey, Caroline and Audrey sit nearest to Carlos on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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