Carlos

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Carlos: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Carlos: Recorded since 1945, it reached #83 in 2004, and it stood at #577 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
120times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#83highest recorded position
25groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#489
1997	#538
1998	#470
1999	#434
2000	#651
2001	#433
2002	#468
2003	#401
2004	#487
2005	#493
2006	#476
2007	#519
2008	#626
2009	#535
2010	#687
2011	#594
2012	#682
2013	#692
2014	#765
2015	#753
2016	#672
2017	#888
2018	#690
2019	#929
2020	#944
2021	#1218
2022	#1104
2023	#965
2024	#968

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 63 of the 74 years from 1945 to 2018.

In 2024: #727 among boys in Scotland, #968 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #340 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded2004–2006
Highest recorded position: #83 among boys in New Zealand, in 2004 (recorded 2004–2006).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Carlos appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 63 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 675 births with the name.

Carlos across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Carlos's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#340 (1945)	#223 (1959)	#416 (2018)	63 of 74	675 (1945–2018)	21 (1980)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#270 (1969)	#270 (1969)	#577 (2025)	22 of 57	91 (1969–2025)	6 (2008)
England and Wales · Boys	#489 (1996)	#401 (2003)	#968 (2024)	29 of 29	1,290 (1996–2024)	65 (2003)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#390 (2009)	#390 (2009)	#416 (2018)	3 of 10	9 (2009–2018)	3 (2009)
New Zealand · Boys	#83 (2004)	#83 (2004)	#92 (2006)	2 of 3	122 (2004–2006)	65 (2004)

Carlos by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Carlos in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	14	2 of 10	7
1950s	65	8 of 10	8
1960s	109	10 of 10	11
1970s	139	10 of 10	14
1980sbusiest	165	10 of 10	17
1990s	82	9 of 10	9
2000s	60	7 of 10	9
2010s	41	7 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Carlos appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #83 in New Zealand in 2004.

Carlos's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#968	32	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#965	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1218	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#944	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#929	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#690	50	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#888	35	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#672	52	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#753	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#765	41	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#692	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#682	49	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#594	58	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#687	45	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#535	63	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#626	50	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#519	61	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#476	65	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#493	56	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#487	54	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#401	65	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#468	46	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#433	49	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#651	28	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#434	50	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#470	42	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#538	33	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#489	37	High	Verified
2006	New Zealand	male	#92	57	High	Verified
2004	New Zealand	male	#83	65	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#415	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#416	7	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#471	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#452	6	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#514	4	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#412	8	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#440	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#422	8	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#401	9	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#361	10	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#319	11	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#450	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#466	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#339	11	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#399	8	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#498	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#508	5	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#446	7	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#389	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#377	10	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#320	14	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#349	12	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#371	12	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#326	14	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#343	13	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#280	17	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#273	20	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#348	13	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#297	17	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#346	13	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#271	19	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#268	18	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#253	21	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#377	11	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#274	17	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#261	18	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#293	15	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#261	18	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#273	17	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#345	12	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#512	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#302	14	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#344	11	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#342	11	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#381	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#336	10	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#329	11	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#331	10	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#410	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#262	14	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#299	11	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#275	12	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#252	14	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#223	16	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#409	5	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#284	10	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#277	10	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#328	7	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#350	6	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#352	5	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#323	6	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#257	10	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#340	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#542	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#473	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#439	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#379	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#292	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#320	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#270	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 76 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #83, first reached in 2004.

It held a top-100 place in 2 years.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 65 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1969, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Carlito · #2174, 19y
Carlo · #299, 32y
Carlota · #2341, 22y
Carlotta · #834, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ivan · #83, 80y
Antonio · #85, 72y
Valentina · #85, 77y
Axel · #87, 79y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Bent · #83, 56y
Bernt · #83, 61y
Edith · #83, 78y
Helle · #83, 80y

Carlos was ranked #83 in New Zealand · Boys in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Carlos and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Carlos without appearing here.

Carlos moved ahead of

Ross Compare
In 2019 they stood at #929 and #894 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #944 and #1723.
Wayne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #687 and #678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #594 and #1303.
Colin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1104 and #1104 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #965 and #1610.
Gerard Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1218 and #1184 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1104 and #1534.

Moved ahead of Carlos

Rian Compare
In 2018 they stood at #690 and #711 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #929 and #493.
Fionn Compare
In 2018 they stood at #690 and #702 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #929 and #589.
Tadhg Compare
In 2018 they stood at #690 and #786 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #929 and #634.
Emil Compare
In 2018 they stood at #690 and #731 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #929 and #642.

Moved the opposite way to Carlos

Jonathan Compare
Between 1949 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Carlos went from #257 to #416 while Jonathan went from #371 to #62.
Mats Compare
Between 1949 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Carlos went from #257 to #416 while Mats went from #330 to #111.
Patrick Compare
Between 1949 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Carlos went from #257 to #416 while Patrick went from #358 to #194.
Philip Compare
Between 1949 and 2018 in Norway · Boys, Carlos went from #257 to #416 while Philip went from #359 to #69.

Moved the same way as Carlos

Stein Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Carlos went from #340 to #514 and Stein from #42 to #503.
Adrian Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Carlos went from #270 to #577 and Adrian from #48 to #348.
Alfred Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Carlos went from #270 to #577 and Alfred from #163 to #286.
Denis Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Carlos went from #270 to #577 and Denis from #29 to #232.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #83 in New Zealand in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Carlos

Carlos at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Carlos across 5 official records

Carlos by decade in Norway · Boys

Carlos appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Carlos

Carlos and the names beside it

Carlos moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Carlos

Moved the opposite way to Carlos

Moved the same way as Carlos

Carlos at a glance

Carlos across 5 official records

Carlos by decade in Norway · Boys

Carlos appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Carlos

Carlos and the names beside it

Carlos moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Carlos

Moved the opposite way to Carlos

Moved the same way as Carlos