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Cartier: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 150 in 2025. Its best rank was #983 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #983 in 2022; #1,297 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Cartier in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,297 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #983.
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Cartier: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 150 boys in 2025. Peak: #983 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 229 (2022).
In 2025, 150 US boys were named Cartier, making it the 1,297th most common boys’ name of the year, down 92 places from #1,205 in 2024. That is 18 fewer than the 168 boys named Cartier in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #983, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 229. For comparison, it was #1,933 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Cartier, making it the 8,976th most common girls’ name of the year, down 924 places from #8,052 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 girls named Cartier in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,863, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #11,076 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cartier in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 2,785 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,228 babies named Cartier.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,660 US boys were named Cartier; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 229. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,387 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cartier ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #559 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carter (216,871 babies since 1880), Karter (34,052 babies since 1880) and Kartier (1,910 babies since 1880).
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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 Cartier 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 18 | #559 | #736 |
| Maryland | 6 | #724 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #728 | #679 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #762 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #784 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #793 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #794 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #802 | #784 |
| Virginia | 7 | #893 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,121 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,137 | #1,662 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,205 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,322 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,568 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,976 | 150 | #1,297 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,052 | 168 | #1,205 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,004 | 205 | #1,062 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,774 | 229 | #983 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,863 | 179 | #1,135 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,703 | 188 | #1,064 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,649 | 153 | #1,234 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,911 | 168 | #1,143 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,932 | 131 | #1,362 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,005 | 89 | #1,744 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,076 | 75 | #1,933 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,287 | 100 | #1,577 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,197 | 73 | #1,916 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,595 | 86 | #1,744 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,211 | 52 | #2,408 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,447 | 51 | #2,434 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,623 | 45 | #2,712 |
| 2008 | — | — | 42 | #2,836 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | #3,142 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,498 | 32 | #3,317 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,616 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,289 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,321 |
| 2002 | — | — | 13 | #5,443 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,792 | 15 | #4,923 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,466 | 22 | #3,654 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,591 | 14 | #4,797 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,724 | 10 | #5,895 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,757 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,233 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,944 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,509 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,407 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,001 | 12 | #4,604 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,595 | 5 | #8,303 |
| 1989 | — | — | 9 | #5,226 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,095 | 8 | #5,268 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,109 | 7 | #5,567 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,155 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,905 | 6 | #5,897 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,378 |
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).