Carlis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Carlis

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,221 babies named Carlis between 1912 and 2012, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carlis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Carlis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 178 additional births since 1930.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlis performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 195 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Carlis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Carlis in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,221 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.