Karter
Karter is ranked 248th among boys in 2024 (1,425 births). Its best rank was 162nd, in 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- #248down 23 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,4250.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 20192,424 births
- Best rank
- #162in 2020
- Since 1985
- 32,517people given the name
The story in the numbers
28,187 boys have been named Karter in the United States since 1985, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 2,424 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 194 → 248).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 60%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,330 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Karter was the 163rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Karter
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kacenpeak 2019
- Greysonpeak 2017
- Dashpeak 2017
- Jaxtonpeak 2018
- Advikpeak 2017
- Caysonpeak 2016
- Princetonpeak 2017
- Kasepeak 2018
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.