Karlie
About 11,486 American babies have been named Karlie since 1966, most of them around 2004. In 2025 it ranked 2,173rd. About 11,000 Karlies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Karlie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,486
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 617th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,173rd
- First recorded
- 1966
How old the living Karlies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,486 babies given the name since 1966, about 11,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 4,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
A spelling variant of Carly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Karlies
- Karlie Kloss (born 1992)American fashion model
People named Karlie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Karlie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Karlie is most concentrated in Utah (3.7×), Louisiana (2.5×), Idaho (2.1×), Alabama (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular girls’ names the year Karlie peaked:
Karlie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Karlie | 191 | 1,076th |
| Scotland girls | Karlie | 68 | 411th |
| France girls | Karlie | 25 | 4,379th |
| Ireland girls | Karlie | 19 | 716th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Karlie | 4 | 363rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Karlie by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Karlie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.