Carson
2025 SSA
About Carson
Carson is one of the most long-running popular androgynous baby names, with a dash of the Wild West via the legendary Missouri frontiersman Kit Carson. Dating back to when it was the name of Nancy Drew's Dad, Carson is still steadily in the Top 200 baby names.
Current Carsons include TV personalities Carson Daly and Carson Kressley, and Pro Bowl quarterback Carson Palmer. Carson Wells was the bounty hunter character played by Woody Harrelson in No Country for Old Men, and Carson is the name chosen by actress Kathryn Erbe for her son.
Although its best known namesake is writer Carson McCullers, Carson has not caught on as a girl's name.
Pronounced KAR-sun.
As of October 2026, Carson ranked #124 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #70 in 2018, Nameberry popularity #255.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #91 | 4,624 | 2,407.2 |
| 2015 | #89 | 4,760 | 2,483.4 |
| 2016 | #81 | 4,931 | 2,598.4 |
| 2017 | #83 | 4,765 | 2,574.3 |
| 2018 | #70 | 5,259 | 2,895.7 |
| 2019 | #82 | 4,520 | 2,519.2 |
| 2020 | #84 | 4,193 | 2,429.2 |
| 2021 | #97 | 3,769 | 2,154.4 |
| 2022 | #110 | 3,407 | 1,951.3 |
| 2023 | #112 | 3,209 | 1,876 |
| 2024 | #123 | 2,890 | 1,677.4 |
| 2025 | #124 | 2,883 | 1,687.9 |
World rankings
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Carson on lists
Famous Carsons
- Sofia Carson
American actress
- Carson Jones Daly
American TV host
- Carson Kressley
American fashion critic
- Carson Hilton Palmer
American football player
- (Clarence) Carson Parks
American songwriter and singer
- John William "Johnny" Carson
TV talk show host and comedian
- Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and political candidate
- Carson Bruener (b. 2002)
son of NFL player Mark Bruener
- Carson Lincoln Kinney (b. 2003)
son of actors Terry Kinney and Kathryn Erbe
- Charles Stephen "Carson" Paine IV (b. 2015)
son of Erin (Bates) Paine of reality TV show Bringing Up Bates
- Carson Sharp (b. 2015)
son of jockey Rosie Napravnik and Joe Sharp
- Carson James Lueders (b.2001)
YouTube celebrity, upcoming singer.
- Carson Wentz
American football player
Carson in pop culture
- Carson Beckett
doctor on TV's "Stargate: Atlantis"
- Carson Drew
father of Nancy Drew
- Carson Philips
main character in film and novel "Struck By Lightning," by Chris Colfer
- Charles Carson (known as Carson)
butler on TV's "Downton Abbey"