Carlus
Carlus was last recorded in 2004, when 7 babies were given it; 535 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,082, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1970, the peak
Carlus peaked in 1970, when 20 boys were given it, #1,999 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | #9,082 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,912 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,619 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,470 | 2.7 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,753 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,288 | 2.4 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,033 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,831 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,449 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,996 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 9 | #4,274 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,441 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,646 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,385 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,951 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,062 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,720 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,690 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,473 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,258 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,258 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,213 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 20 | #1,999 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,142 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,138 | 4.6 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,630 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,805 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,640 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,076 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,082 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,685 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,334 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,378 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,029 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,063 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,554 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,879 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,137 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,400 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,761 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,039 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,121 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,391 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,758 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,739 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,195 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,554 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,591 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,598 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,619 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,851 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,840 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,074 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,765 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 9 | #2,939 | 8.0 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,765 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,289 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,513 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,290 | 7.4 |
| 1920 | 9 | #2,993 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,247 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,269 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,073 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,903 | 5.9 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,886 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 535 Americans recorded as Carlus, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carlus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlus, and how old are they?
An estimated 353 Americans named Carlus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 46 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 382 people named Carlus (35 women and girls, 347 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 381 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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, Carlus is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,439 babies recorded by SSA was a Carlus (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 Carlus and names like it
- Compare Carlus and CarlosBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarlus peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Carlus.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carlus alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.