Meaning not yet researched.
Karely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 74 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,249 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,249 in 2023; #2,420 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karely in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,420 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,249.
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Karely: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 74 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,249 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 185 (2023).
In 2025, 74 US girls were named Karely, making it the 2,420th most common girls’ name of the year, down 414 places from #2,006 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 98 girls named Karely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,249, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 185. For comparison, it was #2,536 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karely in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 2,670 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 831 babies named Karely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,074 US girls were named Karely; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 185. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,720 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karely ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #1,142 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kareli, Karelly and Carely are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kareli (513), Karelly (166), Carely (152), Careli (80), Karelia (11), Karelie (5).
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 Karely in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 5 | #1,142 | #903 |
| California | 20 | #1,257 | #1,465 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,499 | #998 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 2024 | 98 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 2023 | 185 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 2022 | 179 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 2018 | 84 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,404 | — | — |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,542 | — | — |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,328 | — | — |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,861 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,749 | — | — |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,463 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,084 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,824 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,150 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,157 | — | — |
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).