Carys

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Carys: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Carys: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #130 in 2004, and it stood at #431 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#130highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#199
1997	#222
1998	#192
1999	#193
2000	#198
2001	#242
2002	#245
2003	#176
2004	#130
2005	#153
2006	#146
2007	#172
2008	#202
2009	#217
2010	#233
2011	#239
2012	#299
2013	#328
2014	#367
2015	#406
2016	#437
2017	#467
2018	#536
2019	#537
2020	#700
2021	#767
2022	#899
2023	#774
2024	#855

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #431 among girls in Scotland, #855 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #199 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #130 among girls in England and Wales, in 2004 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #855 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Carys appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 5,090 births with the name.

Carys across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Carys's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#199 (1996)	#130 (2004)	#855 (2024)	29 of 29	5,090 (1996–2024)	389 (2004)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#202 (2003)	#170 (2006)	#333 (2020)	12 of 18	74 (2003–2020)	11 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#511 (2004)	#651 (2017)	10 of 15	48 (2003–2017)	7 (2011)

Carys by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Carys in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	860	4 of 10	215
2000sbusiest	2,698	10 of 10	270
2010s	1,303	10 of 10	130
2020s	229	5 of 10	46

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 270 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2002 and 2003, when recorded births rose by 114, from 163 to 277.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Carys appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #130 in England and Wales in 2004.

Carys's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#855	43	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#774	46	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#899	39	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#767	48	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#700	53	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#537	75	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#536	78	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#467	94	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#437	101	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#406	111	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#367	122	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#328	141	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#299	160	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#239	208	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#233	213	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#217	230	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#202	256	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#172	308	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#146	363	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#153	335	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#130	389	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#176	277	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#245	163	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#242	166	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#198	211	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#193	230	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#192	224	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#222	189	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#199	217	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#246	7	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#324	5	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#201	9	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#277	6	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#203	9	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#170	11	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#238	6	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#202	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	7	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#550	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	5	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#511	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #130, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 389 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Carwyn · #464, 27y
Cary · #1765, 12y
Casandra · #523, 11y
Casen · #2325, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Arianna · #130, 31y
Kornelia · #130, 32y
Ariella · #132, 30y
Jensen · #127, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alexa · #130, 29y
Arianna · #130, 31y
Bryony · #129, 29y
Conner · #131, 29y

Carys was ranked #130 in England and Wales · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Carys and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Carys without appearing here.

Carys moved ahead of

Kate Compare
In 2022 they stood at #899 and #775 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #774 and #1108.
Helen Compare
In 2022 they stood at #899 and #876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #774 and #1030.
Deborah Compare
In 2016 they stood at #661 and #536 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2017 that had become #651 and #873.
Elisabeth Compare
In 2016 they stood at #750 and #750 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2017 that had become #651 and #873.

Moved ahead of Carys

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #537 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #700 and #460.
Rita Compare
In 2023 they stood at #774 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #855 and #625.
Eleanor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #246 and #311 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2012 that had become #383 and #203.
Hayley Compare
In 2009 they stood at #201 and #364 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2010 that had become #324 and #160.

Moved the opposite way to Carys

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Carys

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Carys went from #199 to #855 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #130 in England and Wales in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Carys

Carys at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Carys across 3 official records

Carys by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Carys appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Carys

Carys and the names beside it

Carys moved ahead of

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Carys at a glance

Carys across 3 official records

Carys by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Carys appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Carys

Carys and the names beside it

Carys moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Carys

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