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Carver

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Carver is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 122 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1220.01% of boys
Peak year
2018143 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1912
3,128people given the name
Babies named Carver, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,042 boys have been named Carver in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 143 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 40%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 86 girls have also been given it, 2.7% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Carver
1910s22
1920s49
1930s64
1940s142
1950s72
1960s48
1970s31
1980s38
1990s171
2000s577
2010s1,208
2020s620

In 2018, its biggest year

Carver was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2018 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Oliver. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Carver

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.