Carli
Carli was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,407 among girls’ names; 8,972 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,820 Americans named Carli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carli mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carli is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
A spelling variant of Carly.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carli?
#3,407 among girls’ names, 2025
Carli fell from #1,523 in 2015 to #3,407 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 82.9 to 28.0 per million.
365 babies in 1996, the peak
Carli peaked in 1996, when 365 girls were given it, #622 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,407 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 54 | #3,023 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,793 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,933 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 77 | #2,347 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,649 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 88 | #2,132 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 108 | #1,869 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,722 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 157 | #1,466 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 148 | #1,523 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,840 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,541 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 167 | #1,391 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,427 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 197 | #1,224 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,295 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 251 | #1,044 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 205 | #1,218 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 227 | #1,102 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 242 | #1,008 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 241 | #986 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 283 | #854 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 261 | #875 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 298 | #792 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 311 | #742 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 310 | #726 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 355 | #649 | 0.20 |
| 1997 | 324 | #671 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 365 | #622 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 324 | #660 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 324 | #660 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 300 | #712 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 299 | #714 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 265 | #776 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 168 | #1,055 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 145 | #1,135 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 169 | #979 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 149 | #1,039 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 150 | #1,018 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 128 | #1,129 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 129 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 114 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 122 | #1,153 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,369 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,910 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,596 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,917 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,925 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,997 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 54 | #1,731 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,937 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,033 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,113 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,449 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carli has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Carli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carli, and how old are they?
8,820 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,972 Americans ever recorded as Carli. The median Carli alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 8,179 people named Carli (8,141 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,467 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 386 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,970 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,290 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Carli born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,193 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,225 | 0.9× |
Where Carli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carli is most over-represented in Utah: since 1957 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 476,189 babies since 1880, Carli is the eighth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 1,094 babies (4.1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carli
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carli and names like it
- Compare Carli and CarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarli peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carli since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Carli: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Carli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.