Carlton
About 49,167 American babies have been named Carlton since 1880, most of them around 1957. In 2025 it ranked 2,884th. About 29,000 Carltons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carlton boys named Carlton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 49,167
- Estimated living today
- 29,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 246th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,884th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 277 / 48,890
How old the living Carltons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 49,167 babies given the name since 1880, about 29,000 are alive — 58 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 9,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Carltons
- Carlton Cole (born 1983)English footballer
- Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884–1961)American athlete, inventor, and businessman
- Carlton Cuse (born 1959)American television producer and screenwriter
- Carlton Palmer (born 1965)English association football player and manager
- Carlton Myers (born 1971)Italian-British basketball player
- Carlton Chambers (born 1975)Canadian sprinter
- Carlton Morris (born 1995)English association football player
- Carlton Fisk (born 1947)American baseball player
People named Carlton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Carlton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Carlton is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (4.3×), Virginia (3.5×), Georgia (3.2×), North Carolina (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Carlton peaked:
Carlton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Carlton | 485 | 464th |
| France boys | Carlton | 35 | 6,346th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Carlton among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Carlton | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Carlton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.