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Carlito

#4,730 in 2025Boys' name

Free man, through Carlos

Carlito has been given to 1,352 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #4,730 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Carlito, 2025

1 in 158,000

Carlito over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carlito: meaning, origin, and history

Free man, through Carlos

Spanish

What Carlito means

Carlito belongs to the name family reached through Carlito → Carlos → Charles. Its meaning is “free man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Carlito is used in Cebuano, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Carlito comes through Spanish Carlito.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carlos and Charles.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Carlito is pronounced /kaɾˈlito/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,352 boys were recorded with the name Carlito between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,585 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,723 in 2020 to #4,730 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,688 in 2015 to #4,730 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carlito?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,730
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carlito sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlito. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlitos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlito was born before 2007 — so the typical Carlito is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,352
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Choose a decade

2000s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (475).

Is Carlito 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
+740
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,042
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.8%
Peak was 2006 (92)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,585
2006

Spellings of Carlito

Carlito is not the most common spelling — Carlton is, with 63.2% against Carlito's 1.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carlito is used

Across 1910–2025, Carlito was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 412,148 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 100,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Carlito has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carlito around the world

Where Carlito ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    1971–2019
    #5,979
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2007–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carlito by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,730
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7
Best rank ever
#1,585
2006
Peak year
2006
92 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,352
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Carlito

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Carlito

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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