Karys
Karys was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,040 among girls’ names; 509 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karys by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karys?
#14,040 among girls’ names, 2025
Karys fell from #6,583 in 2015 to #14,040 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 3.7 per million.
56 babies in 2006, the peak
Karys peaked in 2006, when 56 girls were given it, #3,034 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,040 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,888 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,947 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,434 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,665 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,409 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,464 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,537 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,596 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,583 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 25 | #5,379 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,127 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,002 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,752 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,062 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,300 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,815 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,882 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,034 | 29.5 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,678 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,239 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,018 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,874 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,870 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,479 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karys a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karys has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karys: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karys, and how old are they?
An estimated 505 Americans named Karys and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 517 people named Karys (507 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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 Karys?
Karys is a less common spelling of Karis: SSA has recorded 509 Karys and 6,848 Karis since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,572 babies since 1880, Karys is the fourth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 160 babies (3.8%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Karys
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 Karys and names like it
- Compare Karys and KarisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarys peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karys since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Karys.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karys alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.