Karly
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births · Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,772
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 427 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,866since 1972
Karly over time
Rank among girls' names. Karly has never cracked the top 500 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 | #2,607 | 66 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 69 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,555 | 69 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,319 | 80 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,558 | 68 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,135 | 85 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,898 | 105 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,727 | 119 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,475 | 152 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,338 | 177 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,329 | 178 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,333 | 177 | — | |
| 2013 | #988 | 253 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,128 | 218 | — | |
| 2011 | #992 | 256 | — | |
| 2010 | #907 | 288 | — | |
| 2009 | #923 | 290 | — | |
| 2008 | #830 | 342 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,012 | 262 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,026 | 249 | — | |
| 2005 | #789 | 329 | — | |
| 2004 | #764 | 341 | — | |
| 2003 | #815 | 303 | — | |
| 2002 | #790 | 297 | — | |
| 2001 | #740 | 323 | — | |
| 2000 | #697 | 336 | — | |
| 1999 | #666 | 344 | — | |
| 1998 | #629 | 370 | — | |
| 1997 | #630 | 355 | — | |
| 1996 | #595 | 383 | — | |
| 1995 | #596 | 378 | — | |
| 1994 | #577 | 398 | — | |
| 1993 | #558 | 427 | — | |
| 1992 | #558 | 421 | — | |
| 1991 | #604 | 373 | — | |
| 1990 | #890 | 217 | — | |
| 1989 | #950 | 186 | — | |
| 1988 | #957 | 174 | — | |
| 1987 | #924 | 179 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,105 | 134 | — | |
| 1985 | #950 | 163 | — | |
| 1984 | #963 | 150 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,137 | 117 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,167 | 118 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,220 | 107 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,318 | 96 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,753 | 62 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,558 | 70 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #1,801 | 56 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,565 | 30 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,753 | 25 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karly! It came in at #5,109, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
See more about Karly
- 48 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #2,607)
- 472 spots since 2020 (#2,135 → #2,607)
- 1,278 spots since 2015 (#1,329 → #2,607)
- Biggest jump: 286 spots in 1991 (#890 → #604)
- Biggest drop: 345 spots in 2014 (#988 → #1,333)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1993 at #558 (427 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 21 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1987–2005
- Highest: 1 in 4,237 girls born in 1993 were named Karly (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.7% of all girls named Karly (3,666) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 344 | #1,558 (1978) | #2,423 |
| 1980s | 1,424 | #924 (1987) | #1,069 |
| 1990s | 3,666 | #558 (1993) | #630 |
| 2000s | 3,072 | #697 (2000) | #839 |
| 2010s | 1,923 | #907 (2010) | #1,312 |
| 2020s | 437 | #2,135 (2020) | #2,456 |
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.
Karly in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 21,884 of them was named Karly, which outranked 86.4% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,546Mirella71
- #1,546Shaina71
- #1,546Zakiyyah71
- #1,558Karly70
- #1,558Amina70
- #1,558Carmella70
- #1,558Keysha70
- #1,569Billy69
- #1,569Brett69
- #1,569Dinah69
Tied with 10 names at #1,558; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Karly, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.