Karie
Karie was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,523 among girls’ names; 5,356 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,000 Americans named Karie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 42 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karie?
#12,523 among girls’ names, 2025
Karie rose from #17,775 in 2015 to #12,523 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 4.4 per million.
293 babies in 1975, the peak
Karie peaked in 1975, when 293 girls were given it, #566 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,523 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,874 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,913 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,892 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,738 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,046 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,775 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,572 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,443 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 12 | #9,388 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,147 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,107 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,131 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,768 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,238 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,711 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,307 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,014 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,433 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,043 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,613 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,078 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,238 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,292 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,258 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,177 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,118 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,478 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,464 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,587 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,272 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,850 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 96 | #1,497 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 105 | #1,357 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 116 | #1,231 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,545 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,386 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 95 | #1,305 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 143 | #1,002 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 146 | #1,013 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 131 | #1,076 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 144 | #1,011 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 169 | #890 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 170 | #866 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 246 | #654 | 0.16 |
| 1976 | 274 | #592 | 0.19 |
| 1975 | 293 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 247 | #628 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 213 | #701 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 162 | #819 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 172 | #810 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 197 | #750 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 153 | #840 | 0.09 |
| 1968 | 139 | #870 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 149 | #817 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 69 | #1,307 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 81 | #1,195 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 101 | #1,089 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,058 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 88 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 85 | #1,201 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 81 | #1,213 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 80 | #1,196 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,687 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 62 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,552 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,296 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,378 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,132 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karie, and how old are they?
5,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 5,356 Americans ever recorded as Karie. The median Karie alive today is 50 years old; half are between 42 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 5,033 people named Karie (4,980 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,066 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 632 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,690 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 281 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 79 |
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 Karie born?
The states with the most babies named Karie are California, Michigan and Ohio, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 610 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 343 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 241 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 238 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 189 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 176 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 165 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 133 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 111 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 110 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Karie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karie is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1950 it was given 1.5 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 Karie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Karie?
Karie is a less common spelling of Carrie: SSA has recorded 5,356 Karie and 267,540 Carrie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 469,612 babies since 1880, Karie is the seventh most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 727 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Karie
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 Karie and names like it
- Compare Karie and CarrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarie peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karie since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Karie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Karie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.