In 2025, 190 US boys were named Kartier, making it the 1,125th most common boys’ name of the year, down 97 places from #1,028 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 217 boys named Kartier in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #917, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 253. For comparison, it was #4,969 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Kartier, making it the 7,308th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,939 places from #5,369 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 24 girls named Kartier in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,679, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #13,716 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kartier in 17 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2009 with 7 babies. In all, 1,910 US babies have been given the name, 10% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,438 babies named Kartier.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,609 US boys were named Kartier; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 253. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,990 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kartier ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #576 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 Cartier (2,785 babies since 1880).