Carlan
Carlan reached its high-water mark in 1946 at number 2,919, and has been recorded 65 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2000. About 50 Carlans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carlan boys named Carlan
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 65
- Estimated living today
- 50
- Median age today
- 52
- Peak year
- 1946
- Best rank
- 2,919th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1945
- Girls / boys
- 25 / 40
How old the living Carlans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 65 babies given the name since 1945, about 50 are alive — 79 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1946
The most popular boys’ names the year Carlan peaked:
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Carlan against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.