Meaning not yet researched.
Karey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,015 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #1,015 in 1975. No US babies were recorded with the name Karey in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #1,015 in 1975.
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Karey: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,015 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 119 (1975).
Fewer than five US girls were named Karey in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,015, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #17,780 in 2015 and #3,550 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Karey in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,748, reached in 1960. That year also had the most boys given the name: 22. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #3,505 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karey in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 5 babies. In all, 2,771 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,010 babies named Karey.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Karey.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Kari (60,627 babies since 1880), Cary (29,827 babies since 1880), Carey (29,621 babies since 1880) and Karie (5,356 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Karey 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,780 | — | — |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #13,494 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,953 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,800 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,065 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,106 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,481 | 6 | #10,052 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,714 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,010 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,880 | 5 | #10,776 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,314 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,395 | 5 | #10,036 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,882 | 6 | #8,463 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,384 | 7 | #7,387 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,607 | 8 | #6,686 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,317 | 10 | #5,572 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,017 | 11 | #5,063 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,085 | 12 | #4,626 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,952 | 13 | #4,287 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,065 | 11 | #4,668 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,944 | 5 | #7,904 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,185 | 12 | #3,860 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,161 | 16 | #3,064 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,911 | 10 | #4,206 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,645 | 9 | #4,386 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,762 | 8 | #4,812 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,896 | 16 | #2,834 |
| 1980 | 70 | #1,650 | 7 | #5,229 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,842 | 8 | #4,630 |
| 1978 | 71 | #1,549 | 9 | #4,006 |
| 1977 | 115 | #1,113 | 7 | #4,865 |
| 1976 | 109 | #1,109 | 14 | #2,887 |
| 1975 | 119 | #1,015 | 14 | #2,833 |
| 1974 | 92 | #1,206 | 17 | #2,405 |
| 1973 | 88 | #1,214 | 11 | #3,123 |
| 1972 | 90 | #1,195 | 5 | #5,364 |
| 1971 | 80 | #1,340 | 9 | #3,524 |
| 1970 | 80 | #1,322 | 14 | #2,574 |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,600 | 18 | #2,015 |
| 1968 | 82 | #1,201 | 11 | #2,663 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,408 | 15 | #2,084 |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,706 | 16 | #2,008 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,964 | 11 | #2,548 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,931 | 8 | #3,158 |
| 1963 | 32 | #2,109 | 16 | #2,079 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,873 | 19 | #1,878 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,974 | 20 | #1,847 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,030 | 22 | #1,748 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,867 | 15 | #2,160 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,926 | 7 | #3,419 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,136 | 11 | #2,562 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,423 | 11 | #2,564 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,436 | 14 | #2,183 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,642 | 7 | #3,304 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,796 | 10 | #2,623 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,698 | 13 | #2,208 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,867 | 8 | #2,952 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,550 | 6 | #3,505 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,515 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,049 | 6 | #3,493 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,695 | 8 | #2,991 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,313 | 5 | #3,773 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,894 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,287 | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,393 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,724 | — | — |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,797 |
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).