Karla
#799 for girls in 2025, 340 births · Last seen for boys in 2009 at #10,994
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 1,840 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 91,586since 1915
Karla over time
Rank among girls' names. Karla has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #799 | 340 | — | |
| 2024 | #732 | 385 | — | |
| 2023 | #710 | 398 | — | |
| 2022 | #689 | 425 | — | |
| 2021 | #701 | 411 | — | |
| 2020 | #676 | 420 | — | |
| 2019 | #680 | 427 | — | |
| 2018 | #628 | 476 | — | |
| 2017 | #557 | 553 | — | |
| 2016 | #561 | 554 | — | |
| 2015 | #510 | 617 | — | |
| 2014 | #503 | 621 | — | |
| 2013 | #475 | 647 | — | |
| 2012 | #412 | 761 | — | |
| 2011 | #352 | 910 | — | |
| 2010 | #324 | 989 | — | |
| 2009 | #298 | 1,116 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #243 | 1,421 | — | |
| 2007 | #219 | 1,581 | — | |
| 2006 | #208 | 1,656 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #203 | 1,716 | — | |
| 2004 | #196 | 1,749 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #179 | 1,780 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #175 | 1,840 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #193 | 1,699 | — | |
| 2000 | #203 | 1,587 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #194 | 1,609 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #209 | 1,473 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #201 | 1,470 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #204 | 1,435 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #241 | 1,182 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #223 | 1,260 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #234 | 1,197 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #239 | 1,157 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #257 | 1,088 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #276 | 1,002 | #4,167 | 13 |
| 1989 | #279 | 966 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #286 | 866 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #283 | 868 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #271 | 915 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #277 | 902 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #262 | 934 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #253 | 940 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #259 | 957 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #252 | 986 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #250 | 1,026 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #238 | 1,080 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #250 | 948 | — | |
| 1977 | #248 | 1,000 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #242 | 978 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #242 | 1,013 | — | |
| 1974 | #239 | 1,065 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #230 | 1,111 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #243 | 1,121 | — | |
| 1971 | #216 | 1,417 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #196 | 1,634 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #205 | 1,536 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #205 | 1,504 | — | |
| 1967 | #190 | 1,646 | — | |
| 1966 | #193 | 1,686 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #188 | 1,804 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #182 | 2,060 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #189 | 2,007 | — | |
| 1962 | #192 | 1,947 | — | |
| 1961 | #195 | 1,871 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #206 | 1,655 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #206 | 1,635 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #214 | 1,484 | — | |
| 1957 | #215 | 1,529 | — | |
| 1956 | #218 | 1,391 | — | |
| 1955 | #234 | 1,205 | — | |
| 1954 | #241 | 1,135 | — | |
| 1953 | #266 | 941 | — | |
| 1952 | #279 | 828 | — | |
| 1951 | #292 | 722 | — | |
| 1950 | #319 | 592 | — | |
| 1949 | #361 | 480 | — | |
| 1948 | #366 | 465 | — | |
| 1947 | #359 | 504 | — | |
| 1946 | #364 | 427 | — | |
| 1945 | #397 | 319 | — | |
| 1944 | #488 | 217 | — | |
| 1943 | #505 | 218 | — | |
| 1942 | #541 | 187 | — | |
| 1941 | #572 | 148 | — | |
| 1940 | #592 | 137 | — | |
| 1939 | #610 | 122 | — | |
| 1938 | #737 | 87 | — | |
| 1937 | #752 | 81 | — | |
| 1936 | #791 | 73 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,135 | 38 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,019 | 46 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,262 | 32 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,421 | 28 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,803 | 19 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,921 | 10 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 | — | |
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karla! It came in at #3,434, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Karla
- 67 spots since 2024 (#732 → #799)
- 123 spots since 2020 (#676 → #799)
- 289 spots since 2015 (#510 → #799)
- Biggest jump: 344 spots in 1936 (#1,135 → #791)
- Biggest drop: 71 spots in 2018 (#557 → #628)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2002 at #175 (1,840 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 90 yrs · run 1936–2025
- Highest: 1 in 920 girls born in 1964 were named Karla (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,727 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #175 in 2002, was only 1 in 977 (0.10%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.3% of all girls named Karla (17,716) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | #3,434 (1915) | #3,878 |
| 1920s | 65 | #2,859 (1927) | #3,735 |
| 1930s | 536 | #610 (1939) | #1,238 |
| 1940s | 3,102 | #359 (1947) | #455 |
| 1950s | 11,462 | #206 (1959) | #248 |
| 1960s | 17,716 | #182 (1964) | #195 |
| 1970s | 11,367 | #196 (1970) | #234 |
| 1980s | 9,360 | #250 (1980) | #267 |
| 1990s | 12,873 | #194 (1999) | #228 |
| 2000s | 16,145 | #175 (2002) | #212 |
| 2010s | 6,555 | #324 (2010) | #500 |
| 2020s | 2,379 | #676 (2020) | #718 |
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.
Karla in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 1,174 of them was named Karla, which outranked 97.8% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 221,056 of them was named Karla, which outranked 35.3% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).