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Karlos

#4,794 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Karlos has been given to 2,018 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #4,794 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Karlos, 2025

1 in 158,000

Karlos over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karlos: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karlos means

Karlos is a given name.

The naming story behind Karlos

Wikidata records Karlos as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q98557803, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,018 boys were recorded with the name Karlos between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2005; its best national rank was #1,280 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,531 in 2020 to #4,794 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,330 in 2015 to #4,794 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Karlos?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,794
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karlos sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karlos. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karloss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karlos was born before 1999 — so the typical Karlos is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,013
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (435).

Is Karlos 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
−2
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,263
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,464
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.0%
Peak was 2005 (50)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,280
1974

Spellings of Karlos

Karlos is not the most common spelling — Carlos is, with 52.2% against Karlos's 0.34%.

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 Karlos is used

Across 1910–2025, Karlos was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 168,283 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Karlos has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karlos around the world

Where Karlos 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 & Wales
    1998–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1966–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Karlos

People whose public names include Karlos, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Karlos in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Karlos. Linked forms have their own page here.

CarlosKarles

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Karlos by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,794
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,263
Best rank ever
#1,280
1974
Peak year
2005
50 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,018
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Karlos

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KarsynKarsenKartierKaramKaranKarthikKarmeloKaronKarstenKarloKartikKarverKarlinKarderKarasKarelKarimKarsinKareemKareenKariKarltonKarenKarol

Names with a curve like Karlos

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Karlos, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KonstantinosNikolaosSanjayRomelKendricNeftaliDamenYusefDietrichFabioChristosAntonino

Sibling names for Karlos

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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