Meaning not yet researched.
Carsten: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,320 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,320 in 2011; #4,272 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carsten in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,272 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,320.
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Carsten: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,320 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 129 (2011).
In 2025, 24 US boys were named Carsten, making it the 4,272nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 458 places from #4,730 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 21 boys named Carsten in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,320, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #1,792 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carsten in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 2,377 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 886 babies named Carsten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 440 US boys were named Carsten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 71,170 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karsten (3,424 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 Carsten 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 | — | — | 24 | #4,272 |
| 2024 | — | — | 21 | #4,730 |
| 2023 | — | — | 33 | #3,483 |
| 2022 | — | — | 42 | #2,973 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,081 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,584 | 53 | #2,439 |
| 2019 | — | — | 59 | #2,316 |
| 2018 | — | — | 59 | #2,286 |
| 2017 | — | — | 43 | #2,809 |
| 2016 | — | — | 67 | #2,092 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,972 | 84 | #1,792 |
| 2014 | — | — | 93 | #1,658 |
| 2013 | — | — | 108 | #1,500 |
| 2012 | — | — | 123 | #1,368 |
| 2011 | — | — | 129 | #1,320 |
| 2010 | — | — | 116 | #1,425 |
| 2009 | — | — | 91 | #1,708 |
| 2008 | — | — | 115 | #1,441 |
| 2007 | — | — | 98 | #1,594 |
| 2006 | — | — | 80 | #1,740 |
| 2005 | — | — | 59 | #2,087 |
| 2004 | — | — | 68 | #1,819 |
| 2003 | — | — | 55 | #2,057 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,256 |
| 2001 | — | — | 54 | #1,987 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,258 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,617 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,400 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,761 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,700 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,448 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,039 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,162 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,918 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,809 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,330 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,224 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,495 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,219 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #3,915 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,258 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,001 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,197 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,556 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,923 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,882 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,059 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,693 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,261 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,551 |
| 1971 | — | — | 8 | #3,704 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,095 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,142 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,024 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,650 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,814 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,324 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,697 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,402 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,115 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,066 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,899 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,888 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,166 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,314 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,049 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,115 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,838 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,293 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,293 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,448 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,793 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,579 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,574 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,889 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,153 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,270 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,330 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,323 |
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).