Karey — unisex name

What the Data Says About Karey

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,187 babies named Karey between 1941 and 2015, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karey currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 119 babies received it in a single year. Karey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 584 additional births since 1937.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karey performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 902 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Karey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 163 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Karey in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karey 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 2,187 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.