Karey
Last seen for girls in 2015 at #16,419 · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #12,491
Given to girls 78.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 119 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,187since 1941
Karey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | — | ||
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| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
| 2014 | — | — | ||
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| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | #12,491 | 5 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | — | |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | — | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | — | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #3,909 | 26 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #3,135 | 29 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #2,625 | 35 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #2,236 | 43 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,755 | 63 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #1,887 | 57 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #1,644 | 70 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #1,832 | 58 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #1,546 | 71 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #1,110 | 115 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #1,104 | 109 | #2,826 | 14 |
| 1975 | #1,012 | 119 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #1,204 | 92 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #1,211 | 88 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #1,192 | 90 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | #1,336 | 80 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #1,320 | 80 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1969 | #1,591 | 56 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #1,196 | 82 | #2,576 | 11 |
| 1967 | #1,399 | 62 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #1,700 | 44 | #1,963 | 16 |
| 1965 | #1,950 | 35 | #2,476 | 11 |
| 1964 | #1,918 | 38 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #2,094 | 32 | #2,044 | 16 |
| 1962 | #1,858 | 38 | #1,852 | 19 |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 | #1,823 | 20 |
| 1960 | #2,013 | 32 | #1,728 | 22 |
| 1959 | #1,852 | 36 | #2,111 | 15 |
| 1958 | #1,908 | 33 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 | #2,494 | 11 |
| 1956 | #2,389 | 22 | #2,497 | 11 |
| 1955 | #2,411 | 21 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1954 | #2,592 | 18 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 | #2,531 | 10 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | #2,153 | 13 |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #2,862 | 8 |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | #3,525 | 5 |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | — | #3,231 | 6 | |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karey! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1941–1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Karey
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2015
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1975 at #1,012 (119 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,251 girls born in 1975 were named Karey (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 357,020 girls born in 2015 (0.00%)
- 41.2% of all girls named Karey (902) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2014, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 34 | #3,883 (1948) | #4,528 |
| 1950s | 195 | #1,852 (1959) | #2,858 |
| 1960s | 454 | #1,196 (1968) | #1,767 |
| 1970s | 902 | #1,012 (1975) | #1,287 |
| 1980s | 379 | #1,644 (1980) | #3,012 |
| 1990s | 176 | #3,831 (1996) | #6,106 |
| 2000s | 42 | #12,056 (2001) | #14,194 |
| 2010s | 5 | #16,419 (2015) | #16,419 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Karey in 1941
Top girls' names in 1941
More about 1941
girls
1,208,119 girls got a published name in 1941; 1 in 241,624 of them was named Karey, which outranked 13.1% of the 5,085 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 665 names at #4,420; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.