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Carys

Rank in 2024
#4,739
Born in 2024
29
Peak year
2006 · #1233
Origin
Welsh

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 29 girls were named Carys, about 1 in every 55,627.
  • It peaked in 2006 with 196 babies, ranked #1233.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1991.
  • 2,295 girls have been named Carys since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Carys per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. 0
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 51 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,538 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 706 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Welsh Carus, Carys, from caru (“love”).

  • A female given name from Welsh.
Origin
Welsh
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Carys, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Karis

    Rank
    #2,180
    Born '24
    87
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20122024
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    Charis

    Rank
    #2,908
    Born '24
    57
    Origin
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    1880peak 20062024
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    Chris

    Rank
    #13,154
    Born '24
    7
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19612024