Meaning not yet researched.
Karlee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 103 in 2025. Its best rank was #583 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #583 in 2004; #1,898 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karlee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,898 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #583.
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Karlee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 103 girls in 2025. Peak: #583 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 511 (2008).
In 2025, 103 US girls were named Karlee, making it the 1,898th most common girls’ name of the year, down 193 places from #1,705 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 120 girls named Karlee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #583, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 511, in 2008. For comparison, it was #696 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karlee in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 13,647 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 4,391 babies named Karlee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,305 US girls were named Karlee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 373. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,605 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karlee ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #534 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carly (66,626 babies since 1880), Karly (10,871 babies since 1880), Carley (17,328 babies since 1880) and Carlie (16,311 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karleah and Karlyee are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karleah (21), Karlyee (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 Karlee 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 8 | #534 | #325 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #583 | #523 |
| Alabama | 6 | #769 | #343 |
| Missouri | 6 | #864 | #509 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,321 | #569 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,857 | #622 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,320 | #886 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 103 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 2024 | 120 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 2022 | 206 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 2021 | 216 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2020 | 243 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 2019 | 268 | #972 | — | — |
| 2018 | 288 | #930 | — | — |
| 2017 | 332 | #822 | — | — |
| 2016 | 373 | #767 | — | — |
| 2015 | 409 | #696 | — | — |
| 2014 | 414 | #684 | — | — |
| 2013 | 461 | #609 | — | — |
| 2012 | 406 | #694 | — | — |
| 2011 | 451 | #631 | — | — |
| 2010 | 445 | #658 | — | — |
| 2009 | 430 | #678 | — | — |
| 2008 | 511 | #602 | — | — |
| 2007 | 460 | #645 | — | — |
| 2006 | 446 | #650 | — | — |
| 2005 | 444 | #630 | — | — |
| 2004 | 482 | #583 | — | — |
| 2003 | 413 | #643 | — | — |
| 2002 | 383 | #664 | — | — |
| 2001 | 405 | #621 | — | — |
| 2000 | 417 | #608 | — | — |
| 1999 | 398 | #609 | — | — |
| 1998 | 408 | #592 | — | — |
| 1997 | 391 | #589 | — | — |
| 1996 | 370 | #617 | — | — |
| 1995 | 362 | #614 | — | — |
| 1994 | 361 | #615 | — | — |
| 1993 | 340 | #655 | — | — |
| 1992 | 374 | #608 | — | — |
| 1991 | 281 | #742 | — | — |
| 1990 | 142 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1989 | 137 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1988 | 126 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1986 | 89 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1984 | 62 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1983 | 55 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,960 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,439 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,770 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,541 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,253 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,918 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,594 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,544 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,420 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,396 | — | — |
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).