Meaning not yet researched.
Karley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #704 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #704 in 1994; #3,362 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,362 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #704.
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Karley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #704 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 317 (2005).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Karley, making it the 3,362nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 52 places from #3,310 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 48 girls named Karley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #704, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 317, in 2005. For comparison, it was #1,320 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karley in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 7 babies. In all, 7,955 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,825 babies named Karley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,023 US girls were named Karley; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 188. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 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), Karlee (13,647 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 Karley 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 | 46 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2019 | 98 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 2018 | 129 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 2017 | 128 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 2016 | 134 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 2015 | 180 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 2014 | 162 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2013 | 191 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2012 | 159 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 2011 | 215 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 2010 | 251 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 2009 | 269 | #983 | — | — |
| 2008 | 301 | #911 | — | — |
| 2007 | 306 | #901 | — | — |
| 2006 | 289 | #915 | — | — |
| 2005 | 317 | #817 | — | — |
| 2004 | 284 | #867 | — | — |
| 2003 | 291 | #841 | — | — |
| 2002 | 233 | #957 | — | — |
| 2001 | 265 | #862 | — | — |
| 2000 | 270 | #830 | — | — |
| 1999 | 290 | #766 | — | — |
| 1998 | 311 | #714 | — | — |
| 1997 | 257 | #810 | — | — |
| 1996 | 285 | #742 | — | — |
| 1995 | 226 | #860 | — | — |
| 1994 | 298 | #704 | — | — |
| 1993 | 275 | #754 | — | — |
| 1992 | 253 | #797 | — | — |
| 1991 | 167 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1988 | 56 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,293 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,722 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,175 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,283 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,776 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,329 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,864 | — | — |
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).