boys:
609 births since 2008
#3977 (13th percentile)
overall:
609 births since 2008
#7130 (8th percentile)
The name Karas is the #7,130 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 609 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 7.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,977 (13.2% percentile) for all time with 609 births since 2008.
Karas first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (first recorded for boys in 2008).
For boys, Karas reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #825) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 41 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Karas ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 28.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karas".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Karas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.8% confident that Karas is pronounced as KAH-ruhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-ruhs, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K AA1 R AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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