Karlos
- #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 44 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,018since 1942
Karlos over time
Rank among boys' names. Karlos 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 | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,707 | 21 |
| 2024 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2023 | #3,293 | 36 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #3,021 | 40 |
| 2020 | #3,497 | 31 |
| 2019 | #3,347 | 34 |
| 2018 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2017 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #3,111 | 37 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 34 |
| 2014 | #2,754 | 43 |
| 2013 | #2,594 | 46 |
| 2012 | #2,772 | 43 |
| 2011 | #2,590 | 47 |
| 2010 | #2,874 | 41 |
| 2009 | #2,585 | 48 |
| 2008 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #2,765 | 43 |
| 2006 | #2,744 | 42 |
| 2005 | #2,325 | 50 |
| 2004 | #2,569 | 42 |
| 2003 | #2,428 | 43 |
| 2002 | #2,372 | 43 |
| 2001 | #2,429 | 40 |
| 2000 | #2,578 | 36 |
| 1999 | #2,795 | 30 |
| 1998 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #2,041 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,509 | 29 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #1,968 | 38 |
| 1989 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #2,765 | 20 |
| 1987 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #2,601 | 20 |
| 1985 | #2,071 | 27 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #1,929 | 28 |
| 1981 | #1,548 | 39 |
| 1980 | #1,547 | 39 |
| 1979 | #1,532 | 38 |
| 1978 | #1,652 | 33 |
| 1977 | #2,131 | 22 |
| 1976 | #1,453 | 38 |
| 1975 | #1,530 | 34 |
| 1974 | #1,269 | 44 |
| 1973 | #1,435 | 35 |
| 1972 | #1,871 | 23 |
| 1971 | #2,052 | 20 |
| 1970 | #1,794 | 24 |
| 1969 | #2,549 | 12 |
| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #2,470 | 11 |
| 1966 | #2,327 | 12 |
| 1965 | #3,930 | 5 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #2,848 | 9 |
| 1961 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1957 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
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| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Karlos! It came in at #3,560, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1942–1949, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Karlos is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,471 · 1 in 35,095
Best ever in a state: #415 in Alabama, 1974.
Show every state
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| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Karlos
- 6 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #4,707)
- 1,210 spots since 2020 (#3,497 → #4,707)
- 1,408 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #4,707)
- Debuted 1942
- Peaked 1974 at #1,269 (44 births)
- Births halved by 1977, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,735 boys born in 1974 were named Karlos (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.6% of all boys named Karlos (435) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,560 (1942) | #3,560 |
| 1950s | 45 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,385 |
| 1960s | 93 | #2,327 (1966) | #2,889 |
| 1970s | 311 | #1,269 (1974) | #1,672 |
| 1980s | 279 | #1,547 (1980) | #2,117 |
| 1990s | 292 | #1,968 (1990) | #2,660 |
| 2000s | 435 | #2,325 (2005) | #2,538 |
| 2010s | 382 | #2,590 (2011) | #3,086 |
| 2020s | 176 | #3,021 (2021) | #3,869 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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