Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Carlester

#17,362 most common boys' name of all time · #45,344 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1952–1981

Rank among boys
#17,362
Rank overall
#45,344 of 105,966
First appeared
1952
Years on the list
10 of 146
All-time
74
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1954 #2,585
Best rank
#2,585 1954
Girls Boys peak 11/yr
19601980

Carlester first appears in 1952. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1981 — 6 6 #5,794
1978 — 5 5 #6,155
1973 — 5 5 #5,471
1964 — 7 7 #3,544
1960 — 6 6 #3,955
1959 — 6 6 #3,934
1958 — 9 9 #3,021
1956 — 9 9 #2,959
1954 — 11 11 #2,585
1952 — 10 10 #2,679