Carter
In 2025 Carter comes in at #45 nationally, drifting down from its high. The records carry it back to 1881, but its real era is now, 206,833 American children have carried it so far.
Carter’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Carter, 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.
Carter since 1881
Carter peaked in 2015 at #24; #45 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Carter is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Carter runs strongest in Wyoming at 1.47% in 2025, then New Hampshire and Delaware.
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 Carter
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Caleb
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
Cooper
#27 in 2025
Christian
#96 in 2025
Colton
#103 in 2025
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Callum
#118 in 2025 · Gaelic
Carson
#124 in 2025
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About Carter
How common is Carter today?
In 2025 Carter comes in at #45 nationally, drifting down from its high. The full curve since 1881 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Carter mean?
There is no citable gloss for Carter in our public-domain source. We show the chart, the related names and the kit, and leave the etymology to a reference you can check.
Is there a sibling name for Carter?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Caleb, Claire and Cooper, 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 Carter’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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