Karolis

maleStatistical record

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

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

Karolis: Recorded since 1978, it reached #257 in 1990, and it was last ranked in 2018.

3registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
41years from first to last
#257highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2005–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#2754
2007	#3095
2008	#2775
2009	#3227
2010	#3332
2011	#2892
2012	#2117
2013	#3822
2014	#2964
2015	#2319
2016	#2027
2018	#4749

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 · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 20 of the 36 years from 1978 to 2013.

In 2016: #601 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2027 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1978–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1978
First recorded at #620 among boys in Norway in 1978 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1978–2013
Highest recorded position: #257 among boys in Norway, in 1990 (recorded 1978–2013).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #4749 among boys in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Boys

Karolis appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 20 years beginning in 1978, and has registered 203 births with the name.

Karolis 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.

Karolis'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
Norway · Boys	#620 (1978)	#257 (1990)	#536 (2013)	20 of 36	203 (1978–2013)	20 (1990)
England and Wales · Boys	#2754 (2005)	#2027 (2016)	#4749 (2018)	12 of 14	75 (2005–2018)	11 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#448 (2005)	#448 (2005)	#601 (2016)	7 of 12	26 (2005–2016)	5 (2009)

Karolis by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Karolis in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	4	1 of 10	4
1980s	88	8 of 10	11
1990sbusiest	96	8 of 10	12
2000s	7	1 of 10	7
2010s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade — the 8 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Karolis 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 3 regions, from 1978 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #257 in Norway in 1990.

Karolis'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
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#536	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#552	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#457	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#559	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#571	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#365	10	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#271	18	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#312	14	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#462	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#273	19	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#257	20	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#360	13	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#348	13	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#273	18	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#330	14	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#376	12	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#585	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#474	8	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#595	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#620	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#532	5	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

Where Karolis is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Karolis, between 1978 and 2018, in 30 of those 41 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1978–2013	20	#257 in 1990
England and Wales	2005–2018	12	#2027 in 2016
Republic of Ireland	2005–2016	7	#448 in 2005

Its high point came 26 years earlier in Norway (1990) than in England and Wales (2016).

No registrar recorded it for 5 years after 1999; it appears again in 2005.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1978 and 2018, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #257, first reached in 1990.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in Norway in 1990.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 27 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.

Karolina · #114, 52y
Karoline · #5, 64y
Karson · #304, 22y
Karstein · #134, 36y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Alessandro · #256, 31y
Malaika · #256, 30y
Mathilda · #256, 30y
Emilee · #255, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Francesco · #258, 32y
Giedrius · #256, 24y
Katharine · #258, 37y
Leroy · #258, 34y

Karolis was ranked #257 in Norway · Boys in 1990. 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.

Yngve#253
Anton#254
Bjarne#255
Grzegorz#256
Niclas#258
Nicolay#259
Odin#260
Oskar#261

Karolis 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Karolis without appearing here.

Karolis moved ahead of

Kim
In 2014 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2319 and #4747.
Brooke
In 2013 they stood at #3822 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2964 and #4632.
Morten
In 2013 they stood at #2892 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2964 and #4632.
Tayla
In 2012 they stood at #3227 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #3822 and #4685.

Moved ahead of Karolis

Gunnar
In 2017 they stood at #2027 and #2556 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #1786.
Anders
In 2017 they stood at #2027 and #2556 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2259.
Gustav
In 2017 they stood at #2027 and #3478 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2259.
Willow
In 2017 they stood at #2027 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #4749 and #2445.

Moved the opposite way to Karolis

Liam
Between 1987 and 2013 in Norway · Boys, Karolis went from #273 to #536 while Liam went from #627 to #5.
Birk
Between 1990 and 2013 in Norway · Boys, Karolis went from #257 to #536 while Birk went from #562 to #101.
Stephen
Between 1978 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Karolis went from #620 to #365 while Stephen went from #348 to #544.
Albie
Between 2005 and 2018 in England and Wales · Boys, Karolis went from #2754 to #4749 while Albie went from #426 to #52.

Moved the same way as Karolis

Aaron
Between 2005 and 2018 in England and Wales · Boys, Karolis went from #2754 to #4749 and Aaron from #45 to #113.
Adam
Between 2005 and 2018 in England and Wales · Boys, Karolis went from #2754 to #4749 and Adam from #26 to #38.
Alex
Between 2005 and 2018 in England and Wales · Boys, Karolis went from #2754 to #4749 and Alex from #53 to #91.
Andrew
Between 2005 and 2018 in England and Wales · Boys, Karolis went from #2754 to #4749 and Andrew from #88 to #185.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 1978 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #257 in Norway in 1990. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Karolis

Karolis at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Karolis across 3 official records

Karolis by decade in Norway · Boys

Karolis appears in

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Karolis across 3 official records

Karolis by decade in Norway · Boys

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