Meaning not yet researched.
Karas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,788 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,788 in 2014; #4,620 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,620 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,788.
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Karas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,788 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 84 (2014).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Karas, making it the 4,620th most common boys’ name of the year, up 175 places from #4,795 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 21 boys named Karas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,788, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #2,028 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karas in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2008 with 5 babies. In all, 652 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 505 babies named Karas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 331 US boys were named Karas; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karis (6,848 babies since 1880), Carys (2,327 babies since 1880), Caris (1,215 babies since 1880) and Kairos (775 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Karas 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.
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).