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Karyl

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Karyl has been given to 2,106 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1944, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Karyl, 1997

1 in 725,000

Karyl over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karyl: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karyl means

Karyl is a given name.

The naming story behind Karyl

Wikidata records Karyl as a given name, male given name. The entity identifier is Q111911734, 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, 2,106 girls were recorded with the name Karyl between 1923 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1944; its best national rank was #786 in 1944.

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 Karyl?

Karyl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karyl sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karyl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karyls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karyl was born before 1953 — so the typical Karyl is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,264
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1940s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (636).

Is Karyl 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 1944 (95)
Years since peak
81
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#786
1944

Spellings of Karyl

Karyl is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 58.7% against Karyl'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 Karyl is used

Across 1910–2025, Karyl was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 195,495 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Kansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Karyl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karyl around the world

Where Karyl 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.

  • South Australia
    1946–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Karyl by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#786
1944
Peak year
1944
95 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
2,106
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karyl

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

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Names with a curve like Karyl

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

GeorgeannPaulettaGlyndaSusannKarrenRosannDremaSuellenSheronGlindaDaylePamelia

Sibling names for Karyl

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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