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Boy's name · #270 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
85% boys · 15% girls — Karter is also given to girls: 256 in 2025, about 15% in recent years. Karter →
Karter's best rank, #162, came in 2020; it has settled back to #270 today. Roughly 29,000 boys have been named Karter since 1985.
In recent years, Karter ran about 4× its national rate in Mississippi and Louisiana—ranked #62 in Mississippi in 2025.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 45 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Karter ranks in other countries and regions.
#270 in N. Ireland (2025) · #367 in Scotland (2025) · #896 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,015 in Canada (2025) · #785 in Ireland (2024) · #2,161 in Ecuador (2022) · #5,121 in France (2022) · #299 in New Zealand (2020).
Together with its spelling variant Carter (#45), Karter would rank around #30 with about 7,300 births last year — the newborns split about 83/17 between Carter and Karter.
Similar names: Carter · Finley · Cartier · Lennox · Karson · Kash
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