Carlis
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carlis has been given to 1,399 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1946, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.
Babies named Carlis, 2012
1 in 610,000
Carlis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Carlis over time
In 2012, Carlis 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 Carlis?
Carlis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 610,000
- 6 of 3,657,590 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 422,543 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carlis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carliss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlis was born before 1948 — so the typical Carlis is around 77 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 16.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 576
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 16.0% of all recorded uses (195).
Is Carlis 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1946 (28)
- Years since peak
- 79
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Carlis
Carlis is not the most common spelling — Charles is, with 61.0% against Carlis's 0.03%.
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.
Where Carlis is used
Across 1910–2025, Carlis was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 240,827 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carlis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carlis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Carlis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carlis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.