Carlis
Carlis was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 1,399 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,007, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1956, the peak
Carlis peaked in 1956, when 34 babies were given it (27 boys, #1,512 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 6 | #11,007 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #9,774 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 9 | #6,612 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,156 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,194 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #7,904 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #8,891 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,017 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 11 | #4,699 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,071 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #5,840 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #5,033 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 7 | #5,407 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,373 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 9 | #4,251 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,488 | 13 | #3,259 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 9 | #4,272 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,404 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 11 | #3,644 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 10 | #3,836 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 9 | #3,897 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,214 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 7 | #4,500 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,115 | 7 | #4,376 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 11 | #3,158 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,573 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 8 | #3,666 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,480 | 14 | #2,580 |
| 1970 | under 5 | 16 | #2,310 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 16 | #2,141 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 11 | #2,594 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,916 | 11 | #2,490 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,873 | 12 | #2,346 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,641 | 23 | #1,627 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,660 | 16 | #2,049 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,702 | 16 | #2,049 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,354 | 14 | #2,204 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,037 | 11 | #2,567 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,213 | 15 | #2,136 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,059 | 20 | #1,809 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,980 | 14 | #2,186 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,180 | 24 | #1,636 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,882 | 27 | #1,512 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,597 | 15 | #2,055 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,838 | 16 | #1,966 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,645 | 20 | #1,717 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,169 | 19 | #1,754 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,059 | 18 | #1,782 |
| 1950 | under 5 | 14 | #2,037 | |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,930 | 18 | #1,764 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,927 | 22 | #1,568 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 23 | #1,560 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,041 | 28 | #1,328 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 18 | #1,587 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 16 | #1,747 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 15 | #1,923 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 20 | #1,593 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 17 | #1,695 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 18 | #1,636 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 23 | #1,397 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 25 | #1,340 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 18 | #1,640 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 17 | #1,650 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 25 | #1,360 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 20 | #1,559 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 11 | #2,230 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 19 | #1,656 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 14 | #2,016 | |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,103 | 11 | #2,465 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 19 | #1,742 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 13 | #2,285 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 22 | #1,655 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 19 | #1,797 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 16 | #2,018 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 17 | #1,971 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 16 | #2,032 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 19 | #1,832 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 23 | #1,593 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 22 | #1,653 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 8 | #3,150 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 12 | #2,416 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 11 | #2,444 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 15 | #1,968 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 11 | #2,328 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 12 | #1,883 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 7 | #2,306 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,602 |
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 Carlis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,399 Americans recorded as Carlis, 13% are girls and 87% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carlis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlis, and how old are they?
An estimated 720 Americans named Carlis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 51 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,279 people named Carlis (234 women and girls, 1,045 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 826 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, Carlis is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,439 babies recorded by SSA was a Carlis (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carlis
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carlis and names like it
- Compare Carlis and CarlosBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCarlis peaked in 1956.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlis since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Carlis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carlis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.