Caryl — unisex name

What the Data Says About Caryl

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,347 babies named Caryl between 1896 and 1996, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caryl currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1996. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 190 babies received it in a single year. Caryl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 344 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caryl performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 1,489 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Caryl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 911 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Caryl in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caryl 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 6,347 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.