In 2025, 21 US boys were named Carlito, making it the 4,731st most common boys’ name of the year, up 743 places from #5,474 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 17 boys named Carlito in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,585, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #2,689 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlito in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 1,352 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 475 babies named Carlito.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 246 US boys were named Carlito; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Karlito are summarised on this page.