Meaning not yet researched.
Karly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #558 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #558 in 1992; #2,631 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,631 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #558.
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Karly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #558 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 427 (1993).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Karly, making it the 2,631st most common girls’ name of the year, down 59 places from #2,572 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 69 girls named Karly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #558, reached in 1992. The most girls given the name in a single year was 427, in 1993. For comparison, it was #1,333 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karly in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 10 babies. In all, 10,871 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,666 babies named Karly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 990 US girls were named Karly; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 177. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karly ranked highest in Tennessee in 2025, at #1,051 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Karla (91,895 babies since 1880), Carly (66,626 babies since 1880), Karlee (13,647 babies since 1880) and Carley (17,328 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. 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.
No nicknames listed for Karly 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,051 | #998 |
| New York | 6 | #1,947 | #1,865 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,519 | #1,213 |
| California | 6 | #2,931 | #1,363 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 2022 | 80 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 2020 | 85 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 2018 | 119 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 2017 | 152 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 2015 | 178 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2014 | 177 | #1,336 | — | — |
| 2013 | 253 | #991 | — | — |
| 2012 | 218 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 2011 | 256 | #993 | — | — |
| 2010 | 288 | #908 | — | — |
| 2009 | 290 | #923 | — | — |
| 2008 | 342 | #831 | — | — |
| 2007 | 262 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2006 | 249 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 2005 | 329 | #791 | — | — |
| 2004 | 341 | #764 | — | — |
| 2003 | 303 | #816 | — | — |
| 2002 | 297 | #794 | — | — |
| 2001 | 323 | #740 | — | — |
| 2000 | 336 | #698 | — | — |
| 1999 | 344 | #666 | — | — |
| 1998 | 370 | #629 | — | — |
| 1997 | 355 | #631 | — | — |
| 1996 | 383 | #597 | — | — |
| 1995 | 378 | #596 | — | — |
| 1994 | 398 | #577 | — | — |
| 1993 | 427 | #559 | — | — |
| 1992 | 421 | #558 | — | — |
| 1991 | 373 | #604 | — | — |
| 1990 | 217 | #891 | — | — |
| 1989 | 186 | #952 | — | — |
| 1988 | 174 | #958 | — | — |
| 1987 | 179 | #925 | — | — |
| 1986 | 134 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1985 | 163 | #954 | — | — |
| 1984 | 150 | #966 | — | — |
| 1983 | 117 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1982 | 118 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1981 | 107 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1980 | 96 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 1979 | 62 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,560 | 5 | #6,294 |
| 1977 | 56 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,254 | — | — |
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).