Carrera
#12,162 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carrera has been given to 243 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #12,162 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Carrera, 2025
1 in 474,000
Carrera 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Carrera?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,162
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carrera sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carrera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carreras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carrera was born before 2007 — so the typical Carrera is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 29.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 243
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 29.2% of all recorded uses (71).
Is Carrera 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
- +1,650
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,624
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,704
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.17×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 46.7%
- Peak was 2006 (15)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.0% average annual change
Spellings of Carrera
Carrera is not the most common spelling — Carmela is, with 64.3% against Carrera's 0.64%.
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.
Carrera around the world
Where Carrera 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 & Wales1996–2018#5,666in 2018
- Canada2009–2011#3,211in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Carrera by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Carrera
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carrera
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.