Karver

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 28 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
28
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Karver by the numbers

Karver was given to 28 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 37 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Karver

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Karver. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Karter2,620 in the US (2017)
  • Karder19 in the US (2017)
  • Korver6 in the US (2017)
  • Kareemnoble; generous and dignified79 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Karsenfollower of Christ; a modern respelling of Karsten234 in the US (2017)
  • Kaiseremperor; derived from Caesar229 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Karver

Names that are said the same way as Karver, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Carverone who carves147 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Karver

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