Meaning not yet researched.
Carrington: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,056 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,056 in 2000; #6,592 in 2025. About 59% of babies named Carrington in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,592 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #1,056.
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Carrington: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,056 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 197 (2000).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Carrington, making it the 6,592nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,262 places from #5,330 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 24 girls named Carrington in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,056, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 197. For comparison, it was #2,529 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Carrington, making it the 6,876th most common boys’ name of the year, up 991 places from #7,867 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 10 boys named Carrington in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,298, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 89, in 1999. For comparison, it was #4,193 in 2015 and #2,333 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carrington in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 8 babies. In all, 4,481 US babies have been given the name, 59% of them girls and 41% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,497 babies named Carrington.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 351 US girls were named Carrington; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karrington (1,734 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karington and Carington 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karington (158), Carington (23).
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 Carrington 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 | 17 | #6,592 | 12 | #6,876 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,330 | 10 | #7,867 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,776 | 11 | #7,362 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,346 | 21 | #4,732 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,531 | 21 | #4,656 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,097 | 15 | #5,752 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,289 | 13 | #6,474 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,091 | 14 | #6,085 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,156 | 22 | #4,493 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,836 | 26 | #4,008 |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,529 | 24 | #4,193 |
| 2014 | 84 | #2,241 | 27 | #3,805 |
| 2013 | 110 | #1,836 | 26 | #3,880 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,032 | 36 | #3,122 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,913 | 28 | #3,707 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,876 | 25 | #4,011 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,795 | 21 | #4,608 |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,043 | 29 | #3,661 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,089 | 34 | #3,266 |
| 2006 | 104 | #1,934 | 36 | #3,034 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,462 | 33 | #3,098 |
| 2004 | 91 | #2,021 | 27 | #3,465 |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,107 | 32 | #3,000 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,808 | 45 | #2,298 |
| 2001 | 140 | #1,361 | 59 | #1,874 |
| 2000 | 197 | #1,056 | 78 | #1,543 |
| 1999 | 166 | #1,170 | 89 | #1,343 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,925 | 40 | #2,239 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,486 | 43 | #2,066 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,918 | 50 | #1,821 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,371 | 48 | #1,805 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,029 | 51 | #1,736 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,436 | 56 | #1,601 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,511 | 64 | #1,435 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,666 | 58 | #1,504 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,086 | 73 | #1,298 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,888 | 63 | #1,383 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,406 | 42 | #1,673 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,022 | 45 | #1,567 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,659 | 45 | #1,495 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,080 | 25 | #2,178 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,257 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,091 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,524 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,640 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,186 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,704 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,300 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,316 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,497 | 10 | #3,179 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,812 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,093 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,134 | 5 | #4,213 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,659 |
| 1963 | — | — | 13 | #2,317 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,153 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,071 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,032 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,067 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,497 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,937 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,333 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,044 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,422 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,224 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,900 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,573 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,527 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,182 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,353 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,601 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,197 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,114 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,170 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,292 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,329 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,293 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,434 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,390 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,253 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,269 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,566 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,119 |
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).