Meaning not yet researched.
Carys: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,227 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,227 in 2006; #4,375 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carys in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,375 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #1,227.
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Carys: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,227 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 196 (2006).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Carys, making it the 4,375th most common girls’ name of the year, up 313 places from #4,688 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 29 girls named Carys in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,227, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 196. For comparison, it was #2,280 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carys in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 2,327 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,123 babies named Carys.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 419 US girls were named Carys; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karis (6,848 babies since 1880), Caris (1,215 babies since 1880) and Karas (652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Caress and Caryss are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Caress (209), Caryss (39).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carys in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,375 | — | — |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,591 | — | — |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,344 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 2015 | 82 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 2014 | 114 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 2011 | 139 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 2009 | 138 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 2008 | 178 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 2007 | 145 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 2004 | 178 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2003 | 106 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,763 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,677 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,748 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,639 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,725 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,925 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,098 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,133 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,938 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,843 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,624 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,446 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).