Carlin
Carlin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199262 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1905
- 4,535people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,613 boys have been named Carlin in the United States since 1905, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 62 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1990s alone account for 18%.
Carlin is used for both sexes: 42% of its bearers are girls (1,922), most of them born around 1998.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carlin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 58 | |
| 1920s | 103 | |
| 1930s | 138 | |
| 1940s | 141 | |
| 1950s | 161 | |
| 1960s | 166 | |
| 1970s | 197 | |
| 1980s | 365 | |
| 1990s | 469 | |
| 2000s | 387 | |
| 2010s | 333 | |
| 2020s | 90 |
In 1992, its biggest year
Carlin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Carlin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Salvadorpeak 1992
- Isidropeak 2000
- Bernardopeak 1995
- Baltazarpeak 2001
- Gonzalopeak 2000
- Genaropeak 2000
- Celsopeak 2006
- Silvestrepeak 1994
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.