girls:
6.3k births since 1896
#2080 (64th percentile)
boys:
344 births since 1898
#4242 (7th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1896
#3288 (58th percentile)
The name Caryl is the #3,288 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,691 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 57.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,080 (63.6% percentile) for all time with 6,347 births since 1896. For boys, it ranks #4,242 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 344 births since 1898.
Caryl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for girls and 1898 for boys). Birth data for Caryl is available in 91 out of the 101 years between 1896 and 1996 (91 years for girls and 44 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Caryl has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Caryl reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 26.6% percentile (ranked #456) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 138 births per million (ranked 24.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
For boys, Caryl reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #532) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caryl".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Caryl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.5% confident that Caryl is pronounced as KEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-rihl, at 28.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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