Karell
Karell was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 109 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,075, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2006, the peak
Karell peaked in 2006, when 10 boys were given it, #7,721 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,075 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,152 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,101 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,435 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,824 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,340 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,721 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,378 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,296 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,233 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 8 | #8,054 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,916 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,704 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,278 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,146 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,798 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,896 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Karell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karell, and how old are they?
An estimated 107 Americans named Karell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 18 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 272 people named Karell (75 women and girls, 197 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Karell?
Karell is a less common spelling of Carrell: SSA has recorded 109 Karell and 491 Carrell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 102,577 babies since 1880, Karell is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 107 babies recorded by SSA was a Karell (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Karell
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 Karell and names like it
- Compare Karell and CarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarell peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Karell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.