Meaning not yet researched.
Karla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 340 in 2025. Its best rank was #175 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #175 in 2002; #803 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#803 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #175.
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Karla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 340 girls in 2025. Peak: #175 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 2,060 (1964).
In 2025, 340 US girls were named Karla, making it the 803rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 71 places from #732 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 385 girls named Karla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #175, reached in 2002. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,060, in 1964. For comparison, it was #511 in 2015 and #319 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karla in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 91,895 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 17,756 babies named Karla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,389 US girls were named Karla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 554. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karla ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #500 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carol (825,584 babies since 1880), Carla (150,815 babies since 1880), Carole (110,952 babies since 1880) and Karly (10,871 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Carla and Carly.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, English and German. 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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 14 | #500 | #399 |
| Colorado | 11 | #518 | #659 |
| Florida | 32 | #562 | #358 |
| Texas | 56 | #565 | #242 |
| Maryland | 8 | #624 | #601 |
| Georgia | 17 | #632 | #575 |
| California | 49 | #638 | #344 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #677 | #796 |
| Oregon | 5 | #679 | #634 |
| New York | 22 | #745 | #568 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #819 | #590 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #850 | #618 |
| Indiana | 7 | #867 | #814 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #889 | #519 |
| Virginia | 7 | #986 | #569 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,001 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,182 | #395 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,356 | #1,570 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,357 | #490 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 340 | #803 | — | — |
| 2024 | 385 | #732 | — | — |
| 2023 | 398 | #711 | — | — |
| 2022 | 425 | #689 | — | — |
| 2021 | 411 | #701 | — | — |
| 2020 | 420 | #676 | — | — |
| 2019 | 427 | #681 | — | — |
| 2018 | 476 | #628 | — | — |
| 2017 | 553 | #557 | — | — |
| 2016 | 554 | #562 | — | — |
| 2015 | 617 | #511 | — | — |
| 2014 | 621 | #504 | — | — |
| 2013 | 647 | #475 | — | — |
| 2012 | 761 | #412 | — | — |
| 2011 | 910 | #353 | — | — |
| 2010 | 989 | #325 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,116 | #298 | 6 | #11,728 |
| 2008 | 1,421 | #243 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,581 | #219 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,656 | #208 | 6 | #11,356 |
| 2005 | 1,716 | #203 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,749 | #196 | 8 | #8,540 |
| 2003 | 1,780 | #179 | 5 | #11,839 |
| 2002 | 1,840 | #175 | 9 | #7,347 |
| 2001 | 1,699 | #193 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,587 | #203 | 5 | #11,305 |
| 1999 | 1,609 | #194 | 6 | #9,307 |
| 1998 | 1,473 | #209 | 10 | #6,070 |
| 1997 | 1,470 | #201 | 8 | #6,945 |
| 1996 | 1,435 | #204 | 5 | #9,787 |
| 1995 | 1,182 | #241 | 8 | #6,687 |
| 1994 | 1,260 | #223 | 7 | #7,360 |
| 1993 | 1,197 | #234 | 11 | #5,189 |
| 1992 | 1,157 | #239 | 9 | #5,887 |
| 1991 | 1,088 | #258 | 11 | #4,938 |
| 1990 | 1,002 | #276 | 13 | #4,288 |
| 1989 | 966 | #279 | 18 | #3,270 |
| 1988 | 866 | #286 | 7 | #6,127 |
| 1987 | 868 | #283 | 9 | #4,756 |
| 1986 | 915 | #271 | 8 | #5,105 |
| 1985 | 902 | #278 | 12 | #3,693 |
| 1984 | 934 | #262 | 7 | #5,270 |
| 1983 | 940 | #254 | 6 | #5,870 |
| 1982 | 957 | #259 | 7 | #5,321 |
| 1981 | 986 | #252 | 7 | #5,212 |
| 1980 | 1,026 | #251 | 8 | #4,730 |
| 1979 | 1,080 | #239 | 11 | #3,694 |
| 1978 | 948 | #250 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,000 | #248 | 5 | #6,342 |
| 1976 | 978 | #242 | 7 | #4,675 |
| 1975 | 1,013 | #242 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,065 | #239 | 6 | #4,941 |
| 1973 | 1,111 | #230 | 6 | #4,805 |
| 1972 | 1,121 | #244 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,417 | #216 | 8 | #3,803 |
| 1970 | 1,634 | #196 | 5 | #5,092 |
| 1969 | 1,536 | #205 | 5 | #4,713 |
| 1968 | 1,504 | #205 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,646 | #190 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,686 | #193 | 5 | #4,245 |
| 1965 | 1,804 | #188 | 10 | #2,695 |
| 1964 | 2,060 | #182 | 6 | #3,829 |
| 1963 | 2,007 | #189 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,947 | #192 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,871 | #195 | 9 | #3,001 |
| 1960 | 1,655 | #206 | 5 | #4,334 |
| 1959 | 1,635 | #207 | 5 | #4,285 |
| 1958 | 1,484 | #214 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,529 | #215 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,391 | #218 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,205 | #234 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,135 | #241 | — | — |
| 1953 | 941 | #266 | — | — |
| 1952 | 828 | #279 | — | — |
| 1951 | 722 | #292 | — | — |
| 1950 | 592 | #319 | — | — |
| 1949 | 480 | #361 | — | — |
| 1948 | 465 | #366 | — | — |
| 1947 | 504 | #359 | — | — |
| 1946 | 427 | #364 | — | — |
| 1945 | 319 | #397 | — | — |
| 1944 | 217 | #488 | — | — |
| 1943 | 218 | #505 | — | — |
| 1942 | 187 | #541 | — | — |
| 1941 | 148 | #575 | — | — |
| 1940 | 137 | #592 | — | — |
| 1939 | 122 | #611 | — | — |
| 1938 | 87 | #742 | — | — |
| 1937 | 81 | #756 | — | — |
| 1936 | 73 | #792 | — | — |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,048 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,238 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,330 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,353 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,173 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,907 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,615 | — | — |
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).