Meaning not yet researched.
Carver: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 117 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,272 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,272 in 2015; #1,499 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Carver in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,499 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,272.
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Carver: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 117 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,272 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 143 (2018).
In 2025, 117 US boys were named Carver, making it the 1,499th most common boys’ name of the year, down 39 places from #1,460 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 124 boys named Carver in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,272, reached in 2015. The most boys given the name in a single year was 143, in 2018. For comparison, it was #1,272 in 2015 and #3,069 in 1950.
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Carver, making it the 6,899th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,156 places from #9,055 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 11 girls named Carver in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,899, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 16. For comparison, it was #12,057 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carver in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 3,263 US babies have been given the name, 3.1% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,250 babies named Carver.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,286 US boys were named Carver; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 143. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,599 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carver ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #261 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Karver and Snyder are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karver (457), Snyder (200).
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 Carver 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 15 | #261 | #319 |
| Utah | 7 | #569 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #700 | — |
| Minnesota | 5 | #831 | #649 |
| Indiana | 5 | #967 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,305 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,569 | #2,164 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,899 | 117 | #1,499 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,055 | 124 | #1,460 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,481 | 127 | #1,433 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,557 | 121 | #1,497 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,730 | 130 | #1,408 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,698 | 120 | #1,438 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,706 | 125 | #1,407 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,972 | 143 | #1,284 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,868 | 139 | #1,302 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,060 | 140 | #1,296 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,057 | 141 | #1,272 |
| 2014 | — | — | 121 | #1,398 |
| 2013 | — | — | 109 | #1,495 |
| 2012 | — | — | 102 | #1,552 |
| 2011 | — | — | 91 | #1,658 |
| 2010 | — | — | 97 | #1,614 |
| 2009 | — | — | 89 | #1,732 |
| 2008 | — | — | 69 | #2,029 |
| 2007 | — | — | 71 | #1,981 |
| 2006 | — | — | 59 | #2,184 |
| 2005 | — | — | 65 | #1,947 |
| 2004 | — | — | 63 | #1,937 |
| 2003 | — | — | 48 | #2,242 |
| 2002 | — | — | 52 | #2,069 |
| 2001 | — | — | 38 | #2,531 |
| 2000 | — | — | 23 | #3,555 |
| 1999 | — | — | 32 | #2,672 |
| 1998 | — | — | 28 | #2,866 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,758 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #4,917 |
| 1995 | — | — | 18 | #3,575 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #3,933 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,744 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #3,943 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,576 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,708 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,084 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #5,848 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,102 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,419 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,048 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,736 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,924 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #5,968 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,503 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,088 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,311 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,144 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,025 |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,590 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,086 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,350 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,569 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,068 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,035 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,650 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,240 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,206 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,413 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,701 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,389 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,069 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,825 |
| 1948 | — | — | 14 | #2,043 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,263 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,420 |
| 1945 | — | — | 21 | #1,452 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,749 |
| 1943 | — | — | 22 | #1,492 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,055 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,365 |
| 1940 | — | — | 16 | #1,743 |
| 1939 | — | — | 13 | #1,971 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,909 |
| 1937 | — | — | 8 | #2,707 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,904 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,729 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,777 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,573 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,138 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,610 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #2,947 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,295 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,943 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,928 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #3,939 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,891 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,800 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #3,994 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #2,970 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,608 |
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).