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Carder

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Carder is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “wool carder”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

What does Carder mean?

English: English occupational surname

“wool carder”

A carder prepared wool for spinning by combing it with spiked tools called cards.

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Is Carder a girl's or a boy's name?

Carder is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Carder in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,799among boys
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Carder, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 30 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the boys named Carder in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 30 in 20102025
Carder in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
202413#6,464
20237#9,757
20228#8,983
20217#9,709
202011#7,029
201913#6,401
201811#7,132
201713#6,334
201618#5,120
201521#4,543
201424#4,135
201320#4,619
201224#4,128
201127#3,790
201030#3,530
200916#5,551
200816#5,482
200719#4,806
200620#4,516
200520#4,321
20047#8,921
200313#5,551
20025#10,660
20018#7,529
20000–
19990–
19985#9,623
19970–
19960–
19959#5,922
19940–
19935#8,693

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