Carlester
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carlester has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Carlester, 1981
1 in 577,000
Carlester over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Carlester?
Carlester had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 577,000
- 6 of 3,459,130 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 299,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 399,616 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carlester sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 399,616 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlester. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carlesters were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlester was born before 1958 — so the typical Carlester is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 60.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 74
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 60.8% of all recorded uses (45).
Is Carlester rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1954 (11)
- Years since peak
- 71
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Where Carlester is used
Across 1910–2025, Carlester was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 263,864 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carlester has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carlester by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Carlester
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carlester
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.