Carlas
Carlas was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 233 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,089, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1973, the peak
Carlas peaked in 1973, when 15 babies were given it (8 boys, #3,747 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | under 5 | 6 | #8,089 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,054 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,636 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #3,883 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 8 | #4,460 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,141 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,822 | 8 | #4,221 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 10 | #3,501 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,375 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 11 | #3,157 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 7 | #6,751 | 8 | #3,747 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 14 | #2,548 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,485 | 6 | #4,452 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 8 | #3,559 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,121 | 5 | #4,209 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,276 | |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,328 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,091 | 5 | #4,121 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,959 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,353 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 7 | #3,395 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,375 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,177 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 5 | #4,013 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #3,950 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,837 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,742 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,322 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,267 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Carlas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 233 Americans recorded as Carlas, 25% are girls and 75% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carlas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlas, and how old are they?
An estimated 192 Americans named Carlas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 49 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 308 people named Carlas (143 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 200 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 314,608 babies since 1880, Carlas is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,439 babies recorded by SSA was a Carlas (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Carlas and names like it
- Compare Carlas and CarlosBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarlas peaked in 1973.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Carlas.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carlas alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.