Meaning not yet researched.
Karlie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 85 in 2025. Its best rank was #597 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #597 in 1994; #2,179 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karlie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,179 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #597.
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Karlie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 85 girls in 2025. Peak: #597 in 1994 · most girls in one year: 445 (2004).
In 2025, 85 US girls were named Karlie, making it the 2,179th most common girls’ name of the year, down 276 places from #1,903 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 105 girls named Karlie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #597, reached in 1994. The most girls given the name in a single year was 445, in 2004. For comparison, it was #820 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karlie in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 11,486 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,672 babies named Karlie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,909 US girls were named Karlie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 328. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karlie ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,457 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carlie (16,311 babies since 1880), Karlee (13,647 babies since 1880), Carlee (13,290 babies since 1880) and Karli (10,960 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karliah 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: Karliah (212).
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 Karlie 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,457 | #714 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,751 | #758 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,777 | #818 |
| California | 6 | #2,930 | #1,466 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 2023 | 124 | #1,675 | — | — |
| 2022 | 137 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 2021 | 173 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 2020 | 191 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 2019 | 247 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 2018 | 243 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 2017 | 276 | #960 | — | — |
| 2016 | 328 | #858 | — | — |
| 2015 | 343 | #820 | — | — |
| 2014 | 308 | #885 | — | — |
| 2013 | 283 | #904 | — | — |
| 2012 | 271 | #944 | — | — |
| 2011 | 283 | #919 | — | — |
| 2010 | 339 | #806 | — | — |
| 2009 | 268 | #989 | — | — |
| 2008 | 358 | #806 | — | — |
| 2007 | 382 | #764 | — | — |
| 2006 | 359 | #765 | — | — |
| 2005 | 400 | #693 | — | — |
| 2004 | 445 | #617 | — | — |
| 2003 | 376 | #696 | — | — |
| 2002 | 356 | #703 | — | — |
| 2001 | 367 | #680 | — | — |
| 2000 | 361 | #670 | — | — |
| 1999 | 345 | #665 | — | — |
| 1998 | 400 | #601 | — | — |
| 1997 | 359 | #625 | — | — |
| 1996 | 368 | #620 | — | — |
| 1995 | 346 | #630 | — | — |
| 1994 | 377 | #597 | — | — |
| 1993 | 329 | #667 | — | — |
| 1992 | 297 | #721 | — | — |
| 1991 | 232 | #861 | — | — |
| 1990 | 162 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1989 | 122 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1988 | 124 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1987 | 99 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1986 | 85 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,870 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,152 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,451 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,025 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,678 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,040 | — | — |
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).