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Carsen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #901 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #901 in 2010; #2,185 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Carsen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,185 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #901.
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Carsen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 boys in 2025. Peak: #901 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 226 (2010).
In 2025, 65 US boys were named Carsen, making it the 2,185th most common boys’ name of the year, down 211 places from #1,974 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 79 boys named Carsen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #901, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 226. For comparison, it was #1,148 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Carsen, making it the 4,577th most common girls’ name of the year, down 356 places from #4,221 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 34 girls named Carsen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,704, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 51, in 2000. For comparison, it was #4,242 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carsen in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 6 babies. In all, 5,177 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,159 babies named Carsen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,305 US boys were named Carsen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 189. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,278 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carsen ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,119 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carson (140,887 babies since 1880), Karson (23,500 babies since 1880), Karsyn (12,267 babies since 1880) and Carsyn (6,386 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 Carsen 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,119 | #1,302 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,577 | 65 | #2,185 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,221 | 79 | #1,974 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,779 | 97 | #1,718 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,498 | 102 | #1,680 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,947 | 130 | #1,407 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,191 | 148 | #1,251 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,677 | 165 | #1,172 |
| 2018 | 48 | #3,300 | 145 | #1,262 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,574 | 185 | #1,067 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,165 | 189 | #1,046 |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,242 | 164 | #1,148 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,916 | 205 | #1,005 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,781 | 191 | #1,021 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,737 | 164 | #1,120 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,164 | 190 | #1,012 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,414 | 226 | #901 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,123 | 209 | #962 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,035 | 196 | #996 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,838 | 160 | #1,124 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,279 | 138 | #1,217 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,601 | 124 | #1,261 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,108 | 121 | #1,247 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,364 | 133 | #1,134 |
| 2002 | 47 | #3,075 | 91 | #1,424 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,379 | 121 | #1,144 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,821 | 69 | #1,667 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,704 | 62 | #1,693 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,435 | 35 | #2,461 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,403 | 24 | #3,081 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,518 | 19 | #3,565 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,700 | 19 | #3,447 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,287 | 16 | #3,932 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,244 | 15 | #4,045 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,261 | 12 | #4,603 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,034 | 11 | #4,808 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,389 | 9 | #5,440 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,072 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,208 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #5,896 |
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).