Meaning not yet researched.
Carla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 223 in 2025. Its best rank was #76 in 1965.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #76 in 1965; #1,083 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,083 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1965, at #76.
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Carla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 223 girls in 2025. Peak: #76 in 1965 · most girls in one year: 5,820 (1962).
In 2025, 223 US girls were named Carla, making it the 1,083rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 74 places from #1,009 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 254 girls named Carla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #76, reached in 1965. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,820, in 1962. For comparison, it was #875 in 2015 and #160 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carla in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 5 babies. In all, 150,815 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 48,024 babies named Carla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,611 US girls were named Carla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 323. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,207 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carla ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #534 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carol (825,584 babies since 1880), Carole (110,952 babies since 1880), Karla (91,895 babies since 1880) and Carly (66,626 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karlah, Carlaya and Carlla are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Carly and Karla.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karlah (18), Carlaya (16), Carlla (7), Karola (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 5 | #534 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #573 | #755 |
| Colorado | 9 | #596 | — |
| California | 42 | #739 | #695 |
| New York | 18 | #868 | #688 |
| Florida | 18 | #873 | #596 |
| Indiana | 6 | #937 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #961 | #540 |
| Texas | 29 | #985 | #538 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #992 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,065 | #784 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,141 | #819 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,250 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,264 | #1,456 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,401 | #1,085 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 223 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2024 | 254 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 2023 | 267 | #967 | — | — |
| 2022 | 291 | #927 | — | — |
| 2021 | 221 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2020 | 245 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 2019 | 253 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 2018 | 255 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 2017 | 279 | #948 | — | — |
| 2016 | 323 | #870 | — | — |
| 2015 | 318 | #875 | — | — |
| 2014 | 320 | #860 | — | — |
| 2013 | 300 | #860 | — | — |
| 2012 | 371 | #751 | — | — |
| 2011 | 368 | #750 | — | — |
| 2010 | 368 | #753 | — | — |
| 2009 | 440 | #665 | — | — |
| 2008 | 531 | #580 | — | — |
| 2007 | 579 | #540 | — | — |
| 2006 | 610 | #499 | — | — |
| 2005 | 585 | #509 | — | — |
| 2004 | 629 | #470 | — | — |
| 2003 | 648 | #462 | — | — |
| 2002 | 764 | #386 | — | — |
| 2001 | 674 | #421 | — | — |
| 2000 | 707 | #404 | — | — |
| 1999 | 679 | #410 | — | — |
| 1998 | 668 | #406 | — | — |
| 1997 | 725 | #373 | — | — |
| 1996 | 769 | #359 | — | — |
| 1995 | 764 | #344 | 5 | #9,060 |
| 1994 | 798 | #336 | 6 | #7,909 |
| 1993 | 882 | #303 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,014 | #276 | 7 | #6,758 |
| 1991 | 1,009 | #275 | 10 | #5,140 |
| 1990 | 1,092 | #263 | 7 | #6,502 |
| 1989 | 1,067 | #252 | 9 | #5,222 |
| 1988 | 1,086 | #243 | — | — |
| 1987 | 1,198 | #225 | 10 | #4,287 |
| 1986 | 1,344 | #193 | 11 | #3,913 |
| 1985 | 1,397 | #194 | 11 | #3,834 |
| 1984 | 1,454 | #189 | 12 | #3,492 |
| 1983 | 1,528 | #178 | 13 | #3,259 |
| 1982 | 1,759 | #165 | 12 | #3,516 |
| 1981 | 1,789 | #160 | 14 | #3,052 |
| 1980 | 1,833 | #152 | 12 | #3,446 |
| 1979 | 1,969 | #142 | 9 | #4,121 |
| 1978 | 2,102 | #132 | 7 | #4,622 |
| 1977 | 2,097 | #137 | 8 | #4,222 |
| 1976 | 2,249 | #122 | 13 | #2,964 |
| 1975 | 2,314 | #122 | 10 | #3,470 |
| 1974 | 2,571 | #114 | 10 | #3,351 |
| 1973 | 2,686 | #114 | 8 | #3,748 |
| 1972 | 3,083 | #106 | 7 | #4,027 |
| 1971 | 3,556 | #107 | 10 | #3,177 |
| 1970 | 4,214 | #94 | 16 | #2,310 |
| 1969 | 3,964 | #90 | 6 | #4,001 |
| 1968 | 3,813 | #91 | 15 | #2,118 |
| 1967 | 4,185 | #82 | 19 | #1,819 |
| 1966 | 4,508 | #77 | 17 | #1,899 |
| 1965 | 4,781 | #76 | 14 | #2,195 |
| 1964 | 5,378 | #78 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 1963 | 5,264 | #82 | 12 | #2,432 |
| 1962 | 5,820 | #78 | 8 | #3,077 |
| 1961 | 5,817 | #77 | 12 | #2,427 |
| 1960 | 4,375 | #110 | 8 | #3,127 |
| 1959 | 3,935 | #118 | 7 | #3,322 |
| 1958 | 3,502 | #126 | 8 | #3,065 |
| 1957 | 3,470 | #128 | 8 | #3,047 |
| 1956 | 3,320 | #130 | 7 | #3,255 |
| 1955 | 3,066 | #135 | 7 | #3,234 |
| 1954 | 2,889 | #135 | 9 | #2,769 |
| 1953 | 2,760 | #129 | 7 | #3,176 |
| 1952 | 2,565 | #138 | 5 | #3,810 |
| 1951 | 2,172 | #147 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,753 | #160 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,498 | #187 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,543 | #180 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,569 | #182 | 5 | #3,792 |
| 1946 | 1,201 | #202 | 6 | #3,220 |
| 1945 | 862 | #222 | — | — |
| 1944 | 722 | #249 | — | — |
| 1943 | 642 | #277 | — | — |
| 1942 | 554 | #287 | — | — |
| 1941 | 455 | #304 | — | — |
| 1940 | 440 | #299 | — | — |
| 1939 | 347 | #342 | — | — |
| 1938 | 311 | #374 | — | — |
| 1937 | 256 | #402 | — | — |
| 1936 | 244 | #411 | — | — |
| 1935 | 214 | #441 | — | — |
| 1934 | 200 | #459 | — | — |
| 1933 | 175 | #481 | — | — |
| 1932 | 197 | #468 | — | — |
| 1931 | 165 | #504 | — | — |
| 1930 | 153 | #551 | — | — |
| 1929 | 124 | #617 | — | — |
| 1928 | 93 | #737 | — | — |
| 1927 | 82 | #802 | — | — |
| 1926 | 72 | #873 | — | — |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,634 | — | — |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,358 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).