Carlas
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carlas has been given to 233 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.
Babies named Carlas, 1996
1 in 608,000
Carlas over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Carlas over time
In 1996, Carlas went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Carlas?
Carlas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,209 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carlas sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carlass were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlas was born before 1973 — so the typical Carlas is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 49.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 159
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Carlas rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (14)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Spellings of Carlas
Carlas is not the most common spelling — Charles is, with 71.2% against Carlas's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Carlas by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Carlas
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carlas
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.