Karee — unisex name
756 babies named Karee in U.S. Social Security records since 1953, with the highest year being 1958. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Karee was born in this single decade.
55 babies were named Karee in 1958 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Karee
The Social Security Administration has registered 756 babies named Karee between 1953 and 2019, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 55 babies received it in a single year. Karee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 85 additional births since 1984.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Karee performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Karee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Karee in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Karee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 756 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Karee at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Karee popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1953
- Peak year (1958)
- 55
- Annual births at peak — across 67 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
756 total births across 67 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1958 with 55 births in a single year.
Karee popularity over time — boys
85 total births recorded since 1984 (Karee as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Karee accounts for 10% of total recorded use across both genders.
Karee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 154 births that decade — 20% of Karee's all-time total
Karee decade highlights
- Peak decade 154 births
- Runner-up 145 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Karee's strongest decade
154 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
Karee by state
Where Karee concentrates geographically — total births since 1953
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 17 | 2.2% |
| #2 | Missouri | | 6 | 0.8% |
17 of 756 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 2.2% of nationwide
- Missouri 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1953–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.