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Karry

The girl's name Karry has been in the national records since 1934, with 1,848 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 1,600 Karrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Karry boys named Karry

Girls and boys called Karry

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Karry crossed from boys to girls in 1964, and has stayed there for 23 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, and in 1989 it was 60%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 32 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,848
Estimated living today
1,600
Median age today
53
Peak year
1971
Best rank
1,586th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1934
Girls / boys
1,200 / 648

How old the living Karrys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,848 babies given the name since 1934, about 1,600 are alive — 88 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 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 Karry is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Karry is most concentrated in Michigan (5.5×), California (4.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1971

The most popular girls’ names the year Karry peaked:

All the names of 1971

Related names

Karry 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.