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Carlis

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Carlis is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
194628 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1912
1,399people given the name
Babies named Carlis, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,221 boys have been named Carlis in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 28 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 28 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1940s alone account for 16%.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 178 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.

By decade

Decadeboys named Carlis
1910s81
1920s186
1930s183
1940s195
1950s187
1960s145
1970s94
1980s84
1990s53
2010s13

In 1946, its biggest year

Carlis was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1946 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1946.

Names that rose and fell with Carlis

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.