Karlis
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karlis has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1987, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Karlis, 2007
1 in 800,000
Karlis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Karlis?
Karlis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2007
- 1 in 800,000
- 5 of 3,997,748 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 415,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2007
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 554,207 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karlis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karlis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karliss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karlis was born before 1981 — so the typical Karlis is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 55.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 44.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 72
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 55.6% of all recorded uses (40).
Is Karlis 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 1987 (9)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Karlis
Karlis is not the most common spelling — Carlos is, with 52.9% against Karlis'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.
Karlis around the world
Where Karlis ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2008–2019#3,937in 2019
- Ireland2010–2010#611in 2010
- South Australia1950–1975#460in 1975
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Karlis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Karlis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karlis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.