Meaning not yet researched.
Carli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #622 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #622 in 1996; #3,408 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,408 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #622.
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Carli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 girls in 2025. Peak: #622 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 365 (1996).
In 2025, 45 US girls were named Carli, making it the 3,408th most common girls’ name of the year, down 385 places from #3,023 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 54 girls named Carli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #622, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 365. For comparison, it was #1,523 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carli in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 6 babies. In all, 8,972 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,039 babies named Carli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 895 US girls were named Carli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 157. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carly (66,626 babies since 1880), Carley (17,328 babies since 1880), Carlie (16,311 babies since 1880) and Carlee (13,290 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carli in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,408 | — | — |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,933 | — | — |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,347 | — | — |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,132 | — | — |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,869 | — | — |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2015 | 148 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 2012 | 167 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 2010 | 197 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 2008 | 251 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 2007 | 205 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2006 | 227 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2005 | 242 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 2004 | 241 | #986 | — | — |
| 2003 | 283 | #854 | — | — |
| 2002 | 261 | #875 | — | — |
| 2001 | 298 | #792 | — | — |
| 2000 | 311 | #742 | — | — |
| 1999 | 310 | #727 | — | — |
| 1998 | 355 | #649 | — | — |
| 1997 | 324 | #671 | — | — |
| 1996 | 365 | #622 | — | — |
| 1995 | 324 | #660 | — | — |
| 1994 | 324 | #660 | 5 | #8,990 |
| 1993 | 300 | #712 | — | — |
| 1992 | 299 | #714 | — | — |
| 1991 | 265 | #776 | — | — |
| 1990 | 168 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1989 | 145 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1988 | 169 | #979 | — | — |
| 1987 | 149 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1986 | 150 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1985 | 128 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1984 | 129 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1983 | 114 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1982 | 122 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,910 | — | — |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,034 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,113 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,450 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).