Carson
For 2025 the count puts Carson at #124 nationwide, cooling off gently. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 132,774 American bearers across the record.
Carson’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Carson, 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.
Carson since 1880
Carson peaked in 2018 at #70; #124 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Carson is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Carson runs strongest in West Virginia at 0.58% in 2025, then New Hampshire and Vermont.
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 Carson
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Callum
#118 in 2025 · Gaelic
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Colton
#103 in 2025
Colter
#157 in 2025
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Callie
#175 in 2025
Callan
#190 in 2025
Browse: names starting with C · all names
About Carson
How common is Carson today?
For 2025 the count puts Carson at #124 nationwide, cooling off gently. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Carson mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Carson keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Carson?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Callum, Charlie and Cora, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Carson’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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