Carliss — unisex name

What the Data Says About Carliss

The Social Security Administration has registered 304 babies named Carliss between 1943 and 1981, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carliss currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1981. The name reached its historical peak in 1952, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Carliss is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 85 additional births since 1939.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carliss performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Carliss shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Carliss in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carliss 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 304 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.