Carsen
Masculine
Carsen is given to both — 4,046 boys and 1,131 girls since 1880. See Carsen as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Carsen respells Carson, and the surname's origin is genuinely unsettled — a Scottish place, a Norse personal name, or a form of Curzon.
How old is the name Carsen?
Carsen first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Carsen alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 4,000 people named Carsen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Carsen most popular?
Carsen peaked in 2010, reaching #901 nationally. Today it ranks #2183, 1,282 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Carson to Carsen
Our story of Carsen
Our story of Carsen is a story of a surname whose reason was lost. Carson appears in southwest Scotland by the fourteenth century and the etymologists have argued ever since — a place, a Norman family, a son of Carr. It crossed to America, where Kit Carson made it famous and Carson City took it. American families began using it as a given name in the twentieth century, and Carsen is a modern respelling. The surname is old; its meaning is not recoverable.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
The Carson surname's origin is not established. Proposals include a Scottish place name, a form of the Norman Curzon, and a patronymic from Carr. None is settled, and the American given name descends from the surname rather than from any word.
How the name formed
- Carson
- Carsen
Related forms: Carson · Carsan
Pronouncing Carsen
KAR-sun
Two syllables, stress on the first. Carsen and Carson are said identically.
Nicknames for Carsen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1985
- Most boys named
- 2010226 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #901reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −17.7%65 in 2025, from 79
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Carsen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Carson in English — spelling variant
- Carsan in Scottish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Carsens among us
people named Carsen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 26,278 born in 2025 was named Carsen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Carsen
- #2183
- Carsen on the 2025 chart
- #782
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Carsen went to 65 boys in 2025, but Karsen is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 146, which makes it the 782nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,401 places above the chart.
- Karsen81
- Carsen65
About 1 boy in 11,699 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 26,278 for Carsen itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rian test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Carsen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rian climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rian's path sketches the road Carsen is walking now.
Carsen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Carsen is headed
Carsen is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Carsen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Carsen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- Sonny is available as a warm affectionate form.
- It is genuinely established in American use.
- The meaning is genuinely unrecovered.
- Carson is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- It is used for both sexes in America.
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Masculine · #2183 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Carsens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,000 people named Carsen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Carsen?
- Carsen is one of 2 recorded spellings. Karsen is the more common one — 81 births in 2025 against 65 for Carsen.
- How popular is the name Carsen in 2025?
- Carsen ranks #2183 among US boy names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Carsen?
- About 1 in every 26,278 US boys born in 2025 was named Carsen — 65 in all.
- Will my child share the name Carsen with classmates?
- Carsen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Carsen
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