Meaning not yet researched.
Karli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #559 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #559 in 1994; #2,708 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,708 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #559.
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Karli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #559 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 425 (1994).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Karli, making it the 2,708th most common girls’ name of the year, up 284 places from #2,992 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 55 girls named Karli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #559, reached in 1994. That year also had the most girls given the name: 425. For comparison, it was #1,289 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karli in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 10,960 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,666 babies named Karli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 964 US girls were named Karli; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karli ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #610 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), Carlie (16,311 babies since 1880), Karlee (13,647 babies since 1880) and Karlie (11,486 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 Karli 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #610 | #635 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,456 | #794 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,580 | #1,014 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,321 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,553 | #1,166 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,708 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 2015 | 187 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2014 | 192 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 2011 | 213 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 2010 | 277 | #933 | — | — |
| 2009 | 267 | #993 | — | — |
| 2008 | 309 | #899 | — | — |
| 2007 | 289 | #934 | — | — |
| 2006 | 311 | #861 | — | — |
| 2005 | 399 | #694 | — | — |
| 2004 | 390 | #694 | — | — |
| 2003 | 324 | #768 | — | — |
| 2002 | 398 | #639 | — | — |
| 2001 | 359 | #693 | — | — |
| 2000 | 394 | #635 | — | — |
| 1999 | 372 | #633 | — | — |
| 1998 | 406 | #596 | — | — |
| 1997 | 416 | #566 | — | — |
| 1996 | 374 | #612 | — | — |
| 1995 | 380 | #595 | — | — |
| 1994 | 425 | #559 | — | — |
| 1993 | 353 | #636 | — | — |
| 1992 | 407 | #574 | — | — |
| 1991 | 327 | #665 | — | — |
| 1990 | 206 | #929 | — | — |
| 1989 | 176 | #984 | — | — |
| 1988 | 196 | #892 | — | — |
| 1987 | 181 | #918 | — | — |
| 1986 | 144 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1985 | 134 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1984 | 135 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1983 | 97 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1982 | 127 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,442 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,881 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,047 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,989 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,136 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,187 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,025 | — | — |
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).