Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Karlis

#17,530 most common boys' name of all time · #45,806 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1950–2007

Rank among boys
#17,530
Rank overall
#45,806 of 105,966
First appeared
1950
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
72
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1987 #4,736
Best rank
#3,829 1966
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
196019802000

Karlis first appears in 1950. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
2007 — 5 5 #12,674
1988 — 5 5 #7,614
1987 — 9 9 #4,736
1985 — 8 8 #4,880
1983 — 5 5 #6,613
1981 — 6 6 #5,788
1980 — 7 7 #5,184
1967 — 6 6 #3,857
1966 — 6 6 #3,829
1964 — 5 5 #4,442
1961 — 5 5 #4,486
1950 — 5 5 #4,169