Caryl
Caryl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 526th, in 1935.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1947190 births
- Best rank
- #526in 1935
- Since 1896
- 6,691people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,347 girls have been named Caryl in the United States since 1896, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 190 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 190 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1940s alone account for 23%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 344 boys have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Caryl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 38 | |
| 1910s | 250 | |
| 1920s | 772 | |
| 1930s | 1,255 | |
| 1940s | 1,489 | |
| 1950s | 1,437 | |
| 1960s | 756 | |
| 1970s | 205 | |
| 1980s | 105 | |
| 1990s | 29 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Caryl was the 610th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Caryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dottypeak 1945
- Donnispeak 1948
- Elainepeak 1947
- Earlenepeak 1947
- Raymapeak 1947
- Earthapeak 1955
- Maryloupeak 1942
- Peggiepeak 1948
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.