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Carmon

Carmon reached its high-water mark in 1968 at number 1,708, and has been recorded 2,836 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 1,500 Carmons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Carmon boys named Carmon

Girls and boys called Carmon

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Carmon crossed from boys to girls in 1956, having already crossed in 1915, and has stayed there for 26 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 90% girls, and in 1984 it was 78%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 60 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,836
Estimated living today
1,500
Median age today
54
Peak year
1968
Best rank
1,708th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1898
Girls / boys
1,586 / 1,250

How old the living Carmons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,836 babies given the name since 1898, about 1,500 are alive — 53 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 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.

Where Carmon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Carmon is most concentrated in Tennessee (17.4×), Kentucky (9.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1968

The most popular girls’ names the year Carmon peaked:

All the names of 1968

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.