Karyl
Karyl was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 2,106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1923 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Karyl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 62 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karyl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karyl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,859, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 1944, the peak
Karyl peaked in 1944, when 95 girls were given it, #786 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #14,859 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,560 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,498 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,804 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,062 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,500 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,762 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,329 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,974 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,882 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 8 | #7,715 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,029 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,258 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,645 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,124 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,923 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,265 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,558 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,282 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,445 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,369 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,024 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,187 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,714 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,063 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,229 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,103 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,192 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,480 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,629 | 27.2 |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,566 | 28.0 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,698 | 23.9 |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,770 | 21.4 |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,364 | 33.2 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,435 | 29.2 |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,249 | 36.6 |
| 1958 | 72 | #1,255 | 35.8 |
| 1957 | 88 | #1,118 | 43.0 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,420 | 27.4 |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,487 | 24.0 |
| 1954 | 42 | #1,568 | 21.6 |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,417 | 25.5 |
| 1952 | 68 | #1,150 | 36.7 |
| 1951 | 54 | #1,269 | 30.0 |
| 1950 | 83 | #1,001 | 48.5 |
| 1949 | 56 | #1,214 | 32.7 |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,214 | 33.0 |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,112 | 36.7 |
| 1946 | 72 | #992 | 45.8 |
| 1945 | 82 | #834 | 62.7 |
| 1944 | 95 | #786 | 71.6 |
| 1943 | 75 | #900 | 53.8 |
| 1942 | 54 | #1,071 | 40.0 |
| 1941 | 51 | #1,026 | 42.2 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,389 | 26.2 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,996 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,065 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,047 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,531 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,878 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,872 | 17.2 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,101 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,747 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,098 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,984 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,038 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,974 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,719 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,739 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,389 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,468 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,330 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karyl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karyl has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karyl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karyl, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 2,106 Americans ever recorded as Karyl. The median Karyl alive today is 69 years old; half are between 62 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 1,901 people named Karyl (1,840 women and girls, 61 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 239 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 884 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 81 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
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 Karyl born?
The states with the most babies named Karyl are Illinois, New York and Michigan, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 113 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 92 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 70 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Karyl with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 847,573 babies since 1880, Karyl is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 138 babies recorded by SSA was a Karyl (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 Karyl
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 Karyl and names like it
- Compare Karyl and CarolBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sKaryl peaked in 1944.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karyl since 1910.
- The top names of 1944The year the most babies were named Karyl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Karyl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.