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Karolis

Boys' name

English equivalent of Charles

Karolis has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2001, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Karolis, 2006

1 in 791,000

Karolis over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karolis: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Charles

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karolis means

Karolis is a English equivalent of Charles.

Origin, language, and formation

Karolis is used in Lithuanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charles.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Karolis is pronounced [²ˈkɑːroːlʲɪs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Karolis between 2001 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #11,475 in 2001.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Karolis?

Karolis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karolis 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karolis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karoliss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karolis was born before 2001 — so the typical Karolis is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
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2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Karolis 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (5)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,475
2001

Spellings of Karolis

Karolis is not the most common spelling — Karlos is, with 30.3% against Karolis's 0.15%.

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.

Karolis around the world

Where Karolis 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
    2005–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2005–2016
    #601
    in 2016
  • Norway
    1880–2013
    #523
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Karolis by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,475
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karolis

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

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Sibling names for Karolis

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

Explore around Karolis

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