Meaning not yet researched.
Carlos: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,418 in 2025. Its best rank was #59 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #59 in 2001; #150 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carlos in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#150 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #59.
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Carlos: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,418 boys in 2025. Peak: #59 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 6,842 (2001).
In 2025, 2,418 US boys were named Carlos, making it the 150th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #135 in 2024. That is 208 fewer than the 2,626 boys named Carlos in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #59, reached in 2001. That year also had the most boys given the name: 6,842. For comparison, it was #118 in 2015 and #188 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlos in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 17 babies with the name. In all, 309,076 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 63,329 babies named Carlos.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 27,170 US boys were named Carlos; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 706 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carlos ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #49 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Charles (2,447,135 babies since 1880), Carl (508,017 babies since 1880), Karl (101,751 babies since 1880) and Carlo (16,000 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karlos, Carlis and Carlitos are summarised on this page.
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 Aragonese, Asturian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karlos (2,018), Carlis (1,399), Carlitos (583), Carlus (535), Carlous (510), Carliss (389), Carlas (233), Carlise (193), Carless (151), Karlis (72), Karloz (21), Carlose (12), and more.
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 Carlos 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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 130 | #49 | #66 |
| Texas | 535 | #72 | #55 |
| California | 442 | #88 | #66 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #96 | — |
| New Mexico | 19 | #101 | #67 |
| Nevada | 29 | #106 | #83 |
| Maryland | 47 | #125 | #118 |
| Florida | 164 | #131 | #105 |
| Colorado | 52 | #135 | #113 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #142 | #70 |
| Oklahoma | 32 | #147 | #148 |
| Illinois | 76 | #155 | #140 |
| Washington | 51 | #168 | #145 |
| Delaware | 6 | #173 | — |
| Georgia | 71 | #175 | #176 |
| Kansas | 22 | #177 | #284 |
| North Carolina | 71 | #178 | #156 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #184 | #157 |
| Alabama | 31 | #187 | #243 |
| Oregon | 22 | #192 | #262 |
| Massachusetts | 33 | #195 | #166 |
| New Jersey | 50 | #197 | #109 |
| Nebraska | 13 | #197 | #195 |
| Tennessee | 46 | #200 | #189 |
| Virginia | 41 | #216 | #143 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #223 | #162 |
| South Carolina | 24 | #233 | #206 |
| Indiana | 34 | #242 | #235 |
| New York | 80 | #243 | #145 |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #246 | #346 |
| Minnesota | 24 | #254 | #341 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #287 | #252 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #295 | #255 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #295 | #191 |
| Kentucky | 18 | #298 | #339 |
| Ohio | 35 | #327 | #306 |
| Missouri | 20 | #328 | #325 |
| Utah | 14 | #330 | #202 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #333 | #400 |
| Michigan | 25 | #349 | #212 |
| Iowa | 10 | #349 | #336 |
| Idaho | 6 | #383 | #171 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 2,418 | #150 |
| 2024 | — | — | 2,626 | #135 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,648 | 2,557 | #139 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,768 | 2,594 | #147 |
| 2021 | — | — | 2,506 | #151 |
| 2020 | — | — | 2,480 | #149 |
| 2019 | — | — | 2,846 | #134 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,967 | 2,864 | #138 |
| 2017 | — | — | 3,075 | #134 |
| 2016 | — | — | 3,204 | #129 |
| 2015 | — | — | 3,421 | #118 |
| 2014 | — | — | 3,424 | #118 |
| 2013 | — | — | 3,684 | #106 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,773 | 4,010 | #95 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,285 | 4,182 | #91 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,443 | 4,591 | #89 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5,379 | #79 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,775 | 6,054 | #73 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,860 | 6,420 | #70 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,822 | 6,549 | #70 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,977 | 6,563 | #70 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,144 | 6,260 | #71 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,947 | 6,218 | #66 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,711 | 6,592 | #65 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,222 | 6,842 | #59 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,261 | 6,322 | #66 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,704 | 6,665 | #59 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,114 | 5,481 | #69 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,051 | 5,463 | #67 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,078 | 5,464 | #67 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,699 | 5,545 | #68 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,137 | 5,329 | #72 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,230 | 5,353 | #72 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,510 | 5,342 | #69 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,895 | 5,330 | #72 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,650 | 5,213 | #75 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,531 | 4,638 | #77 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,159 | 4,127 | #80 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,442 | 4,149 | #74 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,933 | 4,090 | #76 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,020 | 4,089 | #74 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,307 | 3,964 | #74 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,315 | 3,912 | #75 |
| 1982 | 51 | #2,029 | 4,268 | #71 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,494 | 4,185 | #71 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,132 | 4,084 | #78 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,190 | 4,165 | #73 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,990 | 3,729 | #78 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,926 | 3,795 | #74 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,140 | 3,787 | #70 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,810 | 3,793 | #73 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,851 | 3,871 | #71 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,944 | 3,569 | #74 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,102 | 3,434 | #84 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,911 | 3,426 | #88 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,587 | 3,380 | #98 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,258 | 2,891 | #110 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,169 | 2,497 | #121 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,500 | 2,298 | #129 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,196 | 2,159 | #138 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,211 | 2,131 | #144 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,537 | 2,195 | #150 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,714 | 2,112 | #156 |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,742 | 2,119 | #157 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,201 | 2,001 | #164 |
| 1960 | 29 | #2,156 | 1,993 | #167 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,881 | 1,947 | #162 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,676 | 1,904 | #165 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,737 | 1,787 | #173 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,398 | 1,796 | #166 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,557 | 1,703 | #166 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,789 | 1,611 | #173 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,508 | 1,393 | #181 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,683 | 1,258 | #188 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,127 | 1,233 | #189 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,675 | 1,189 | #188 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,863 | 1,135 | #184 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,848 | 1,027 | #193 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,410 | 1,032 | #197 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,053 | 867 | #199 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,076 | 719 | #200 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,969 | 689 | #211 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,068 | 698 | #211 |
| 1942 | — | — | 660 | #221 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,615 | 614 | #216 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,761 | 659 | #201 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,950 | 579 | #212 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,124 | 583 | #210 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,468 | 531 | #225 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,418 | 536 | #217 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,813 | 559 | #214 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,766 | 559 | #217 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,903 | 563 | #208 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,253 | 520 | #231 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,264 | 545 | #224 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,710 | 578 | #222 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,458 | 557 | #228 |
| 1928 | — | — | 583 | #224 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,592 | 544 | #242 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,295 | 496 | #250 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,513 | 471 | #261 |
| 1924 | — | — | 452 | #269 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,031 | 427 | #274 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,531 | 441 | #270 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,556 | 393 | #283 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,139 | 421 | #267 |
| 1919 | — | — | 312 | #314 |
| 1918 | — | — | 348 | #295 |
| 1917 | — | — | 298 | #309 |
| 1916 | — | — | 234 | #352 |
| 1915 | — | — | 273 | #309 |
| 1914 | — | — | 210 | #313 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,256 | 160 | #317 |
| 1912 | — | — | 124 | #341 |
| 1911 | — | — | 69 | #330 |
| 1910 | — | — | 82 | #271 |
| 1909 | — | — | 60 | #292 |
| 1908 | — | — | 56 | #291 |
| 1907 | — | — | 74 | #239 |
| 1906 | — | — | 50 | #283 |
| 1905 | — | — | 58 | #260 |
| 1904 | — | — | 38 | #322 |
| 1903 | — | — | 41 | #295 |
| 1902 | — | — | 37 | #319 |
| 1901 | — | — | 38 | #277 |
| 1900 | — | — | 37 | #360 |
| 1899 | — | — | 36 | #290 |
| 1898 | — | — | 30 | #350 |
| 1897 | — | — | 28 | #353 |
| 1896 | — | — | 30 | #352 |
| 1895 | — | — | 20 | #440 |
| 1894 | — | — | 25 | #368 |
| 1893 | — | — | 26 | #350 |
| 1892 | — | — | 24 | #385 |
| 1891 | — | — | 16 | #443 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #439 |
| 1889 | — | — | 25 | #351 |
| 1888 | — | — | 29 | #343 |
| 1887 | — | — | 20 | #367 |
| 1886 | — | — | 16 | #456 |
| 1885 | — | — | 28 | #318 |
| 1884 | — | — | 13 | #524 |
| 1883 | — | — | 22 | #359 |
| 1882 | — | — | 20 | #400 |
| 1881 | — | — | 19 | #390 |
| 1880 | — | — | 17 | #428 |
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).