# Carter name report

Canonical URL: https://mybabyeta.com/babynames/name/m/carter
Data source: U.S. Social Security Administration public baby-name records
Latest year: 2025

## Summary
Carter ranked #45 officially for boys in 2025. After combined spelling groups, it ranked #46.

## Official spelling
- Rank: #45
- Birth count: 6,024
- Rate per 10,000: 35.27

## Combined spelling group
- Group display: Carter
- Rank: #46
- Birth count: 6,024
- Rate per 10,000: 35.27
- Official count multiplier: 1.00x

## Practical popularity
- Expected per class of 25: 0.05
- Expected per grade of 100: 0.18
- Expected per school of 300: 0.55
- Duplicate chance in grade of 100: 16.5%

## Trend
- Label: mixed / watch
- Peak rate year: 2015
- Best rank year: 2015
- Latest rate as percent of peak: 62.5%

## Spelling components
- Carter: 6,024 births

## Methodology notes
- Official SSA ranks treat each spelling separately.
- Combined ranks group spelling variants and recompute ranks by sex.
- State combined counts may be lower bounds when rare state spellings are suppressed.
- Full methodology: https://mybabyeta.com/babynames/methodology