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Carsten

#4,271 in 2025Boys' name

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christian

Carsten has been given to 2,377 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #4,271 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Carsten, 2025

1 in 138,000

Carsten over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carsten: meaning, origin, and history

A Christian person, a Christian, through Christian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carsten means

Carsten belongs to the name family reached through Carsten → Christian → Chrīstiānus. Its meaning is “a Christian person, a Christian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Carsten is used in Danish and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Christian, Karsten and Chrīstiānus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,367 boys were recorded with the name Carsten between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 129 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,320 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,438 in 2020 to #4,271 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,792 in 2015 to #4,271 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Carsten between 2015 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2015; its best national rank was #15,579 in 2020.

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 Carsten?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,271
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carsten 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carsten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carstens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carsten was born before 2009 — so the typical Carsten is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,263
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (881).

Is Carsten 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
+455
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,833
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,479
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.6%
Peak was 2011 (129)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,320
2011

Spellings of Carsten

Carsten is not the most common spelling — Carter is, with 46.4% against Carsten's 0.53%.

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 Carsten is used

Across 1910–2025, Carsten was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 228,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 100,000
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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. Carsten has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carsten around the world

Where Carsten 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
    2004–2019
    #3,937
    in 2019
  • Norway
    1880–2020
    #416
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1999–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1953–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Carsten

People whose public names include Carsten, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carsten in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Carsten. Linked forms have their own page here.

Karsten

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Carsten by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,271
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,833
Best rank ever
#1,320
2011
Peak year
2011
129 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,367
Count in 2025
24

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,579
2020
Peak year
2015
5 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carsten

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

CardellCartierCarlyleCarlitoCarnellCarmelloCarlinCarsynCarlisleCarverCarlsonCarmelCarsenKristenCarrickBraxtenKarstenTrentenCarolynCarmeloCarmineChristenCarlitosWesten

Names with a curve like Carsten

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carsten, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KaylebEianChayseJacenFilipIzaacCorbanTristynJuanpabloJavianTyceSiddharth

Sibling names for Carsten

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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