Karely
Karely was given to 74 girls in 2025, #2,420 among girls’ names; 2,670 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Karely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karely?
#2,420 among girls’ names, 2025
Karely rose from #2,536 in 2015 to #2,420 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 39.8 to 46.0 per million.
185 babies in 2023, the peak
Karely peaked in 2023, when 185 girls were given it, #1,249 among girls’ names. The 74 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,420 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 98 | #2,006 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 185 | #1,249 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 179 | #1,320 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,278 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,705 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 84 | #2,210 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,371 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,404 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,536 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,826 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,370 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,367 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 76 | #2,425 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,953 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,986 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 97 | #2,096 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,076 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,336 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,538 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,215 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,956 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,830 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 62 | #2,493 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,917 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,018 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,256 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,949 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,323 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,856 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,744 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,032 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,457 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,078 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,152 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karely has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karely, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,670 Americans ever recorded as Karely. The median Karely alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,774 people named Karely (1,771 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,966 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,280 |
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 Karely born?
The states with the most babies named Karely are California, Texas and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,257 | 2.5× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,499 | 2.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,142 | 2.5× |
Where Karely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karely is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1987 it was given 2.5 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 Karely 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 192,437 babies since 1880, Karely is the sixth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 74 of their 874 babies (8.5%), the third 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 Karely
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 Karely and names like it
- Compare Karely and KarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKarely peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karely since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Karely.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karely alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.