# Carsten (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/carsten/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,377 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,367 / 10 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 20, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | 16,972 |
| 2020 | 5 | 15,584 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 129 | 1,320 |
| 2012 | 123 | 1,368 |
| 2013 | 108 | 1,500 |
| 2014 | 93 | 1,658 |
| 2015 | 84 | 1,792 |
| 2016 | 67 | 2,092 |
| 2017 | 43 | 2,809 |
| 2018 | 59 | 2,286 |
| 2019 | 59 | 2,316 |
| 2020 | 53 | 2,439 |
| 2021 | 39 | 3,081 |
| 2022 | 42 | 2,973 |
| 2023 | 33 | 3,483 |
| 2024 | 21 | 4,730 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,272 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | 2,578 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |

## People named Carsten

- Carsten Niebuhr, German mathematician, botanist, cartographer and explorer in Danish service (1733–1815)
- Carsten Jancker, German association football player and manager
- Carsten Ramelow, German association football player
- Carsten Borchgrevink, Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer (1864-1934)
- Carsten Jensen, Danish author and political columnist
- Carsten Mogensen, Danish badminton player
- Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (1790–1872)
- Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player
- Carsten Wolf, East German racing cyclist
- Carsten Embach, German bobsledder
- Carsten Bunk, East German rower
- Carsten Keller, field hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.