Carla
Carla is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 252 births. Its best rank was 76th, in 1965.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2520.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19625,821 births
- Best rank
- #76in 1965
- Since 1890
- 150,163people given the name
The story in the numbers
150,163 girls have been named Carla in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 5,821 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 32%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Carla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 54 | |
| 1910s | 171 | |
| 1920s | 550 | |
| 1930s | 2,262 | |
| 1940s | 9,486 | |
| 1950s | 29,432 | |
| 1960s | 47,905 | |
| 1970s | 26,845 | |
| 1980s | 14,453 | |
| 1990s | 8,399 | |
| 2000s | 6,166 | |
| 2010s | 3,154 | |
| 2020s | 1,275 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Carla was the 78th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Carla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Renaypeak 1960
- Lanettepeak 1964
- Janinepeak 1960
- Lynnettepeak 1964
- Wendolynpeak 1966
- Reneepeak 1962
- Jackipeak 1961
- Lenettepeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.