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How popular is the name Carys?
Births per year, rank history and how many Caryses are alive today.
Carys (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 997th in 2025 with 34 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 389 babies were given the name, the 130th most popular that year. It has declined since 2004; the 2025 figure is roughly 9% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 5,100 babies have been named Carys in England and Wales since 1996. Carys is one spelling of a name also recorded as Karis; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Carys you are most likely to meet is around 21 years old. Half of all Caryses born in England and Wales are between 17 and 30, and there are at least 7,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.5% chance that at least one of them will be called Carys.
How many babies are named Carys each year?
Includes all spellings: Carys, Karis. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Carys spelling rank?
Where does the Karis spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Carys most popular?
Carys peaked in 2004, when 441 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Carys?
At least 7,900 people named Carys in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Carys?
Most living Caryses are between 17 and 30; the most common age is about 21.
Is Carys becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2004 peak.