Carys
#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births
- Peak · girls
- 2006 · 196 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,327since 1991
Carys over time
Rank among girls' names. Carys has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,352 | 32 |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 |
| 2019 | #2,923 | 56 |
| 2018 | #2,841 | 59 |
| 2017 | #3,014 | 54 |
| 2016 | #2,798 | 61 |
| 2015 | #2,278 | 82 |
| 2014 | #1,794 | 114 |
| 2013 | #1,695 | 123 |
| 2012 | #1,639 | 131 |
| 2011 | #1,571 | 139 |
| 2010 | #1,794 | 114 |
| 2009 | #1,620 | 138 |
| 2008 | #1,359 | 178 |
| 2007 | #1,560 | 145 |
| 2006 | #1,227 | 196 |
| 2005 | #1,553 | 131 |
| 2004 | #1,231 | 178 |
| 2003 | #1,769 | 106 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Carys! It came in at #10,271, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1996, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Carys is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#660 · 1 in 3,626
- Maryland#744 · 1 in 3,920
- Illinois#1,063 · 1 in 6,439
- North Carolina#1,184 · 1 in 7,383
- Pennsylvania#1,369 · 1 in 10,415
Best ever in a state: #514 in Kansas, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #660 | 7 | 1 in 3,626 |
| Maryland | #744 | 6 | 1 in 3,920 |
| Illinois | #1,063 | 9 | 1 in 6,439 |
| North Carolina | #1,184 | 6 | 1 in 7,383 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,369 | 5 | 1 in 10,415 |
| Florida | #1,547 | 7 | 1 in 11,594 |
| California | #1,811 | 13 | 1 in 15,782 |
| Texas | #2,795 | 6 | 1 in 26,829 |
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See more about Carys
- 317 spots since 2024 (#4,669 → #4,352)
- 274 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #4,352)
- 2,074 spots since 2015 (#2,278 → #4,352)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2006 at #1,227 (196 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,700 girls born in 2006 were named Carys (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 48.3% of all girls named Carys (1,123) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 82 | #5,868 (1997) | #9,323 |
| 2000s | 1,123 | #1,227 (2006) | #2,934 |
| 2010s | 933 | #1,571 (2011) | #2,235 |
| 2020s | 189 | #3,765 (2022) | #4,457 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Carys in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 14,266 of them was named Carys, which outranked 91.2% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,689Jacie124
- #1,689Jiselle124
- #1,689Kacey124
- #1,695Carys123
- #1,695Ayesha123
- #1,695Citlali123
- #1,695Justine123
- #1,705Analeigh122
- #1,705Ester122
- #1,705Johana122
Tied with 9 names at #1,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.