Caryl
The girl's name Caryl has been in the national records since 1896, with 6,691 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1996. About 3,400 Caryls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Caryl boys named Caryl
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,691
- Estimated living today
- 3,400
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 610th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 6,347 / 344
How old the living Caryls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,691 babies given the name since 1896, about 3,400 are alive — 51 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 2,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Caryls
- Caryl Churchill (born 1938)British dramatist
- Caryl Chessman (1921–1960)American convicted robber, kidnapper, rapist and writer
- Caryl Phillips (born 1958)Kittian-British writer
People named Caryl with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Caryl is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Caryl is most concentrated in Illinois (4.0×), Wisconsin (3.3×), New York (3.0×), Iowa (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Caryl peaked:
Caryl elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Caryl | 115 | 5,218th |
| England and Wales girls | Caryl | 38 | 1,755th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Caryl against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.