Karlos
Karlos was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,794 among boys’ names; 2,018 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Karlos and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 15 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karlos by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karlos?
#4,794 among boys’ names, 2025
Karlos fell from #3,330 in 2015 to #4,794 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 12.3 per million.
50 babies in 2005, the peak
Karlos peaked in 2005, when 50 boys were given it, #2,344 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,794 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,792 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,315 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,041 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,049 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,531 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,393 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,570 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,038 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,135 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,330 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,776 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,608 | 24.3 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,798 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,611 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,893 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,603 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,609 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,783 | 20.7 |
| 2006 | 42 | #2,767 | 20.4 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,344 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 42 | #2,584 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,449 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,388 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,453 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 36 | #2,595 | 18.3 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,825 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,748 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,147 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,786 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,802 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,058 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,540 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,631 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,431 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,991 | 18.5 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,081 | 17.0 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,802 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,301 | 13.4 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,644 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,099 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,202 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,241 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,960 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,563 | 21.8 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,557 | 21.9 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,552 | 22.1 |
| 1978 | 33 | #1,677 | 20.1 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,165 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 38 | #1,462 | 24.2 |
| 1975 | 34 | #1,548 | 21.8 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,280 | 28.0 |
| 1973 | 35 | #1,448 | 22.5 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,894 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,085 | 11.3 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,821 | 12.9 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,617 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,996 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,547 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,393 | 6.7 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,190 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,830 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,768 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,946 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,001 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,775 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,432 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,731 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,408 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,205 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,304 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,267 | 3.5 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,505 | 3.4 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,833 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Karlos a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karlos has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karlos: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karlos, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 2,018 Americans ever recorded as Karlos. The median Karlos alive today is 26 years old; half are between 15 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 1,652 people named Karlos (24 women and girls, 1,628 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,774 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 64 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 358 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 433 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 632 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 424 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Karlos born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,638 | 0.8× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Karlos with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Karlos?
Karlos is a less common spelling of Carlos: SSA has recorded 2,018 Karlos and 309,076 Carlos since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 314,529 babies since 1880, Karlos is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 2,439 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
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 Karlos
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 Karlos and names like it
- Compare Karlos and CarlosBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarlos peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karlos since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Karlos.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karlos alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.