Carlisle
Recorded 1888–2025 · United States
Carlisle was most popular in 2010, when 62 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,848 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,994, with 45 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,329 people named Carlisle.
Carlisle over time
How old is the name Carlisle?
Carlisle first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1888, which makes it about 137 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 120 of the 138 years since.
How many people are named Carlisle?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,329 American births named Carlisle between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,549 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Carlisle in 2025?
45 American babies were named Carlisle in 2025, ranking #5,994 that year.
Is Carlisle getting more or less popular?
Carlisle is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 49 births a year, against 47 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +5% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Carlisle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Carlisle is a unisex name — 20.1% of the 2,329 Americans given it were girls and 80.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 2010 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 24% girls and 76% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Carlisle?
Roughly 1,549 Americans named Carlisle are alive today — 67% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 16 years old, and half are between 8 and 37.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Carlisle is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org