Meaning not yet researched.
Carlyle: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #564 in 1918.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #564 in 1918; #4,888 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carlyle in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,888 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1918, at #564.
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Carlyle: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #564 in 1918 · most boys in one year: 115 (1918).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Carlyle, making it the 4,888th most common boys’ name of the year, up 814 places from #5,702 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 16 boys named Carlyle in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #564, reached in 1918. That year also had the most boys given the name: 115. For comparison, it was #5,090 in 2015 and #918 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlyle in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 4,071 US babies have been given the name, 5.3% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 806 babies named Carlyle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 212 US boys were named Carlyle; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Karlyle and Carlile 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karlyle (17), Carlile (15).
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 Carlyle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 20 | #4,888 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,702 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,382 | 15 | #5,983 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,769 | 17 | #5,473 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,817 | 22 | #4,515 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,298 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,704 | 24 | #4,247 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,608 | 26 | #4,007 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,494 | 26 | #4,009 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,003 | 23 | #4,348 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,090 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,561 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,453 | 19 | #4,829 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #7,639 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,310 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,548 | 12 | #6,754 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #7,776 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,954 | 10 | #7,784 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,984 | 9 | #8,287 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,514 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,272 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,047 | 5 | #11,635 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,320 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,779 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,202 | 13 | #5,423 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,464 | 5 | #10,606 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,963 | 14 | #4,796 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,527 | 14 | #4,682 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,456 | 10 | #5,709 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,765 | 12 | #4,915 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,892 | 13 | #4,548 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,025 | 10 | #5,505 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,838 | 19 | #3,386 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,654 | 19 | #3,349 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,442 | 20 | #3,125 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,377 | 21 | #2,969 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,472 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,776 |
| 1987 | — | — | 21 | #2,574 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,519 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,468 | 13 | #3,434 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,304 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,262 |
| 1982 | — | — | 22 | #2,279 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,241 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,846 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,321 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,428 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,803 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,519 |
| 1975 | — | — | 18 | #2,376 |
| 1974 | — | — | 14 | #2,685 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,620 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,259 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,064 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,946 |
| 1969 | — | — | 18 | #1,989 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #1,967 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,801 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,232 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #1,994 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,738 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,901 |
| 1961 | — | — | 20 | #1,828 |
| 1960 | — | — | 28 | #1,525 |
| 1959 | — | — | 24 | #1,629 |
| 1958 | — | — | 33 | #1,348 |
| 1957 | — | — | 25 | #1,585 |
| 1956 | — | — | 32 | #1,362 |
| 1955 | — | — | 38 | #1,222 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,842 | 46 | #1,102 |
| 1953 | — | — | 38 | #1,215 |
| 1952 | — | — | 26 | #1,488 |
| 1951 | — | — | 30 | #1,348 |
| 1950 | — | — | 56 | #918 |
| 1949 | — | — | 45 | #1,048 |
| 1948 | — | — | 37 | #1,175 |
| 1947 | — | — | 48 | #1,038 |
| 1946 | — | — | 33 | #1,218 |
| 1945 | — | — | 36 | #1,085 |
| 1944 | — | — | 44 | #974 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,854 | 40 | #1,076 |
| 1942 | — | — | 39 | #1,097 |
| 1941 | — | — | 40 | #1,020 |
| 1940 | — | — | 39 | #1,032 |
| 1939 | — | — | 48 | #900 |
| 1938 | — | — | 42 | #979 |
| 1937 | — | — | 46 | #923 |
| 1936 | — | — | 53 | #833 |
| 1935 | — | — | 61 | #791 |
| 1934 | — | — | 54 | #854 |
| 1933 | — | — | 64 | #762 |
| 1932 | — | — | 58 | #837 |
| 1931 | — | — | 66 | #769 |
| 1930 | — | — | 60 | #845 |
| 1929 | — | — | 61 | #837 |
| 1928 | — | — | 67 | #797 |
| 1927 | — | — | 65 | #830 |
| 1926 | — | — | 78 | #723 |
| 1925 | — | — | 75 | #759 |
| 1924 | — | — | 77 | #761 |
| 1923 | — | — | 90 | #676 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,125 | 95 | #658 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,230 | 87 | #693 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,093 | 96 | #646 |
| 1919 | — | — | 101 | #600 |
| 1918 | — | — | 115 | #564 |
| 1917 | — | — | 101 | #591 |
| 1916 | — | — | 89 | #618 |
| 1915 | — | — | 72 | #683 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,700 | 53 | #714 |
| 1913 | — | — | 34 | #819 |
| 1912 | — | — | 45 | #610 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,128 |
| 1910 | — | — | 11 | #989 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #905 |
| 1908 | — | — | 9 | #961 |
| 1907 | — | — | 14 | #705 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #980 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,186 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,073 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,022 |
| 1895 | — | — | 10 | #698 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #681 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,090 |
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).