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Cartier

Cartier: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“cart driver; transporter”
Origin
French
Say it
kar-tee-AY · 3 syllables
Used for
Boys (89% of all uses)

Cartier is a French occupational surname from Old French cartier, related to cart. Its use as a first name is transferred from the surname.

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How popular is Cartier?

202454.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Cartier in 2024181

2024 rank#1,205 boys

Peak year2022

Total US babies since 18802,624

Cartier is rising: use over the last five years is 2.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Cartier

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Kartiervariant of Cartier, carter · French
  • Oliverolive tree · French
  • Beauhandsome · French
  • Calvinbald · French
  • Louisfamous warrior · French
  • Granttall; large · French
  • Saintholy person; saint · French
  • Russelllittle red-haired one · French

Cartier questions

What does the name Cartier mean?

Cartier means "cart driver; transporter". It comes from French. Cartier is a French occupational surname from Old French cartier, related to cart. Its use as a first name is transferred from the surname.

Is Cartier a boy or girl name?

Cartier is mainly a boy's name in US records (89% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Cartier?

181 US babies were named Cartier in 2024. Its peak year was 2022.

How do you pronounce Cartier?

Cartier is usually pronounced kar-tee-AY.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.