How Many People Are Named Carleton?
people named Carleton are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 172,010 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,839 babies named Carleton in Social Security records from 1880 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
103 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CHARLTON.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Carleton in English. Counting Carleton and these spellings together, about 33,416 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Carleton in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Carleton alive today is about 58 years old, and 51% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 44 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Carleton first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1923, to 103 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Carleton has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #479, in 1891.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #479 (1891) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #701 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Carleton alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Carleton were born in Massachusetts than in any other state: about 86 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Carleton was given 35.8 times as often in Maine, 7.8 times in Massachusetts and 2.7 times in New York.
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