Kartier
#1,125 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kartier has been given to 1,910 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #1,125 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 253 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Kartier, 2025
1 in 17,400
Kartier 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kartier over time
In 2025, Kartier went to 7% girls and 93% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kartier?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 17,400
- 190 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 8,990
- 0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,125
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 12,095 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kartier 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 12,095 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kartier. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kartiers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kartier was born before 2022 — so the typical Kartier is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 76.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,714
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 76.1% of all recorded uses (1,305).
Is Kartier 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
- −97
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,842
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 10.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 75.1%
- Peak was 2022 (253)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 55.6% average annual change
Spellings of Kartier
Kartier is not the most common spelling — Carter is, with 82.4% against Kartier's 0.68%.
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 Kartier is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Kartier was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 9,788 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in 3,846
- 2South Carolina1 in 3,846
- 3Georgia1 in 4,000
- 4Wisconsin1 in 4,545
- 5Mississippi1 in 4,762
- 6Alabama1 in 5,000
- 7Michigan1 in 5,000
- 8Tennessee1 in 7,143
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.
Where Kartier is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kartier was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 931,388 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Kartier has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kartier around the world
Where Kartier 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 & Wales2019–2019#4,702in 2019
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Kartier by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kartier
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kartier
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.