Name meaning & stats
Carter
Carter means “cart driver”. 213,976 US babies since 1940, peak 2015.
What it means
“cart driver”
Well documented
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2015
213,976 US babies were named Carter between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Carter (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 84% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2015)