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How popular is the name Carter?
Births per year, rank history and how many Carters are alive today.
Carter (male) is currently the 97th most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 536 babies given the name in 2025. This spelling of the name peaked in 2018, when 1,030 babies were given the name, the 60th most popular that year. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 12,000 babies have been named Carter in England and Wales since 1996. Carter is one spelling of a name also recorded as Karter; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Carter you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Carters born in England and Wales are between 5 and 12, and there are at least 12,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 3.9% chance that at least one of them will be called Carter.
How many babies are named Carter each year?
Includes all spellings: Carter, Karter. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Carter spelling rank?
Where does the Karter 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 Carter most popular?
Carter peaked in 2018, when 1,102 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Carter?
At least 12,000 people named Carter in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Carter?
Most living Carters are between 5 and 12; the most common age is about 8.
Is Carter becoming more or less popular?
Rising: it has climbed strongly over the past decade.