Name meaning & stats
Carleton
Carleton means “free men's town”. 2,572 US babies since 1940, peak 1942.
What it means
“free men's town”
Spelling of Carlton
In US birth records
Peak year: 1942
2,572 US babies were named Carleton between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Carleton (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 15 Carltons spell it Carleton
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1942)