Karson
Karson is ranked 397th among boys in 2024 (813 births). Its best rank was 265th, in 2018, 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- #397down 60 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8130.05% of boys
- Peak year
- 20181,344 births
- Best rank
- #265first in 2018
- Since 1966
- 22,753people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,690 boys have been named Karson in the United States since 1966, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 1,344 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 328 → 397).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 52%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,063 girls have also been given it, 9.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2018, its biggest year
Karson was the 265th most given boy’s name 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 Karson
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Samarthpeak 2018
- Maximilianopeak 2019
- Kyrinpeak 2017
- Audenpeak 2020
- Sawyerpeak 2015
- Finniganpeak 2016
- Rayanpeak 2023
- Thatcherpeak 2021
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.