Carlyle
Carlyle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 564th, in 1918.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918115 births
- Best rank
- #564in 1918
- Since 1892
- 4,051people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,836 boys have been named Carlyle in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 115 births.
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 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 215 girls have also been given it, 5.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Carlyle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 36 | |
| 1900s | 47 | |
| 1910s | 631 | |
| 1920s | 791 | |
| 1930s | 552 | |
| 1940s | 401 | |
| 1950s | 348 | |
| 1960s | 168 | |
| 1970s | 168 | |
| 1980s | 165 | |
| 1990s | 152 | |
| 2000s | 92 | |
| 2010s | 192 | |
| 2020s | 93 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Carlyle was the 564th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Carlyle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Florianpeak 1921
- Harlandpeak 1922
- Eldenpeak 1922
- Vintonpeak 1916
- Elwynpeak 1924
- Vernalpeak 1916
- Eldredpeak 1921
- Cletuspeak 1922
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.