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How popular is the name Carson?
Births per year, rank history and how many Carsons are alive today.
Carson (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 401st in 2025 with 101 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2022, when 157 babies were given the name, the 285th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. Carson is one spelling of a name also recorded as Carsen and Karson; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Carson you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Carsons born in England and Wales are between 5 and 13, and there are at least 2,800 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Carson - on average, only one in every 109 such rooms contains a Carson.
How many babies are named Carson each year?
Includes all spellings: Carson, Carsen, Karson. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Carson spelling rank?
Where does the Carsen spelling rank?
Where does the Karson spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Carson most popular?
Carson peaked in 2021, when 218 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Carson?
At least 2,800 people named Carson in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Carson?
Most living Carsons are between 5 and 13; the most common age is about 5.
Is Carson becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.