Karil
Karil was last recorded in 1962, when 6 babies were given it; 55 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karil?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,183, in 1962; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1958, the peak
Karil peaked in 1958, when 19 girls were given it, #2,704 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | #6,183 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,556 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,954 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,168 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,704 | 9.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karil has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 5 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karil, and how old are they?
An estimated 46 Americans named Karil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 143 people named Karil (119 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Karil rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Karil?
Karil is a less common spelling of Caryl: SSA has recorded 55 Karil and 6,691 Caryl since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 847,569 babies since 1880, Karil is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 138 babies recorded by SSA was a Karil (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 Karil
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 Karil and names like it
- Compare Karil and CarylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sKaril peaked in 1958.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karil since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Karil.
- Names starting with KMost given first.