Meaning not yet researched.
Carlo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 276 in 2025. Its best rank was #470 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #470 in 1923; #869 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carlo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#869 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #470.
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Carlo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 276 boys in 2025. Peak: #470 in 1923 · most boys in one year: 276 (2025).
In 2025, 276 US boys were named Carlo, making it the 869th most common boys’ name of the year, up 47 places from #916 in 2024. That is 22 more than the 254 boys named Carlo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #470, reached in 1923. The most boys given the name in a single year was 276, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,256 in 2015 and #800 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlo in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 5 babies. In all, 16,000 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,015 babies named Carlo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,835 US boys were named Carlo; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 276. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,189 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carlo ranked highest in California in 2025, at #531 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Charles (2,447,135 babies since 1880), Carl (508,017 babies since 1880), Carlos (309,076 babies since 1880) and Karl (101,751 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Carlo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 36 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 58 | #531 | #680 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #579 | #992 |
| Arizona | 11 | #598 | #632 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #610 | — |
| Texas | 39 | #710 | #1,006 |
| Illinois | 11 | #762 | #1,090 |
| New York | 18 | #774 | #904 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #793 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #884 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #892 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #953 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,020 | #1,291 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,032 | #1,100 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,059 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,230 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 276 | #869 |
| 2024 | — | — | 254 | #916 |
| 2023 | — | — | 206 | #1,053 |
| 2022 | — | — | 163 | #1,213 |
| 2021 | — | — | 168 | #1,173 |
| 2020 | — | — | 135 | #1,326 |
| 2019 | — | — | 149 | #1,258 |
| 2018 | — | — | 155 | #1,208 |
| 2017 | — | — | 147 | #1,246 |
| 2016 | — | — | 182 | #1,080 |
| 2015 | — | — | 144 | #1,256 |
| 2014 | — | — | 178 | #1,082 |
| 2013 | — | — | 168 | #1,101 |
| 2012 | — | — | 174 | #1,075 |
| 2011 | — | — | 194 | #999 |
| 2010 | — | — | 187 | #1,040 |
| 2009 | — | — | 206 | #970 |
| 2008 | — | — | 195 | #1,002 |
| 2007 | — | — | 225 | #892 |
| 2006 | — | — | 202 | #933 |
| 2005 | — | — | 222 | #835 |
| 2004 | — | — | 177 | #950 |
| 2003 | — | — | 184 | #905 |
| 2002 | — | — | 165 | #966 |
| 2001 | — | — | 160 | #961 |
| 2000 | — | — | 172 | #902 |
| 1999 | — | — | 144 | #987 |
| 1998 | — | — | 138 | #996 |
| 1997 | — | — | 163 | #865 |
| 1996 | — | — | 153 | #884 |
| 1995 | — | — | 149 | #896 |
| 1994 | — | — | 140 | #927 |
| 1993 | — | — | 150 | #865 |
| 1992 | — | — | 133 | #917 |
| 1991 | — | — | 153 | #839 |
| 1990 | — | — | 151 | #835 |
| 1989 | — | — | 147 | #817 |
| 1988 | — | — | 140 | #802 |
| 1987 | — | — | 119 | #858 |
| 1986 | — | — | 153 | #730 |
| 1985 | — | — | 153 | #716 |
| 1984 | — | — | 175 | #652 |
| 1983 | — | — | 156 | #688 |
| 1982 | — | — | 159 | #686 |
| 1981 | — | — | 172 | #650 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,243 | 170 | #662 |
| 1979 | — | — | 175 | #644 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,945 | 189 | #607 |
| 1977 | — | — | 198 | #602 |
| 1976 | — | — | 205 | #566 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,247 | 177 | #613 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,942 | 231 | #519 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,754 | 208 | #540 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,528 | 205 | #558 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,489 | 205 | #568 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,261 | 172 | #619 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,035 | 159 | #624 |
| 1968 | — | — | 125 | #669 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,919 | 124 | #670 |
| 1966 | — | — | 116 | #686 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,890 | 123 | #668 |
| 1964 | — | — | 116 | #715 |
| 1963 | — | — | 121 | #705 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,934 | 134 | #671 |
| 1961 | — | — | 114 | #719 |
| 1960 | — | — | 127 | #697 |
| 1959 | — | — | 115 | #716 |
| 1958 | — | — | 97 | #748 |
| 1957 | — | — | 73 | #884 |
| 1956 | — | — | 87 | #796 |
| 1955 | — | — | 86 | #786 |
| 1954 | — | — | 84 | #778 |
| 1953 | — | — | 94 | #739 |
| 1952 | — | — | 82 | #775 |
| 1951 | — | — | 87 | #745 |
| 1950 | — | — | 72 | #800 |
| 1949 | — | — | 94 | #708 |
| 1948 | — | — | 82 | #745 |
| 1947 | — | — | 74 | #801 |
| 1946 | — | — | 51 | #936 |
| 1945 | — | — | 50 | #899 |
| 1944 | — | — | 74 | #723 |
| 1943 | — | — | 70 | #782 |
| 1942 | — | — | 76 | #737 |
| 1941 | — | — | 81 | #678 |
| 1940 | — | — | 59 | #812 |
| 1939 | — | — | 72 | #700 |
| 1938 | — | — | 82 | #660 |
| 1937 | — | — | 87 | #622 |
| 1936 | — | — | 76 | #679 |
| 1935 | — | — | 93 | #602 |
| 1934 | — | — | 86 | #650 |
| 1933 | — | — | 118 | #523 |
| 1932 | — | — | 84 | #666 |
| 1931 | — | — | 125 | #517 |
| 1930 | — | — | 132 | #520 |
| 1929 | — | — | 128 | #518 |
| 1928 | — | — | 145 | #501 |
| 1927 | — | — | 149 | #497 |
| 1926 | — | — | 139 | #513 |
| 1925 | — | — | 120 | #566 |
| 1924 | — | — | 150 | #512 |
| 1923 | — | — | 167 | #470 |
| 1922 | — | — | 152 | #500 |
| 1921 | — | — | 120 | #576 |
| 1920 | — | — | 143 | #507 |
| 1919 | — | — | 122 | #541 |
| 1918 | — | — | 124 | #538 |
| 1917 | — | — | 125 | #514 |
| 1916 | — | — | 127 | #503 |
| 1915 | — | — | 112 | #525 |
| 1914 | — | — | 105 | #472 |
| 1913 | — | — | 59 | #565 |
| 1912 | — | — | 47 | #593 |
| 1911 | — | — | 28 | #579 |
| 1910 | — | — | 16 | #758 |
| 1909 | — | — | 14 | #764 |
| 1908 | — | — | 14 | #716 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,218 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #938 |
| 1904 | — | — | 6 | #1,082 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,170 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,074 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,185 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,103 |
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).