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Carlitos

#7,275 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Carlos

Carlitos has been given to 583 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #7,275 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Carlitos, 2025

1 in 301,000

Carlitos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carlitos: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Carlos

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carlitos means

Carlitos is a diminutive of Carlos.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Carlitos → Carlos → Charles. The family’s meaning is “free man”, recorded in English with the source elements karilaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Carlitos is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carlos.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Carlitos is pronounced /kaɾˈlitos/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 583 boys were recorded with the name Carlitos between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,097 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,066 in 2020 to #7,275 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,386 in 2015 to #7,275 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 Carlitos?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,275
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carlitos 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlitos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlitoss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlitos was born before 2006 — so the typical Carlitos is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
583
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (198).

Is Carlitos 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
+1,152
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,209
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−889
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.5%
Peak was 2006 (31)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,097
1970

Spellings of Carlitos

Carlitos is not the most common spelling — Carlos is, with 84.4% against Carlitos's 0.16%.

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 Carlitos is used

Across 1910–2025, Carlitos was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 841,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Carlitos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carlitos around the world

Where Carlitos 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.

  • France
    1966–1972
    #2,233
    in 1972
  • South Australia
    1975–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carlitos by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,275
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,209
Best rank ever
#3,097
1970
Peak year
2006
31 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
583
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Carlitos

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

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Sibling names for Carlitos

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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