Karlei — girls' name

What the Data Says About Karlei

The Social Security Administration has registered 302 babies named Karlei between 1991 and 2023, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karlei currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 24 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karlei performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Karlei shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Karlei in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karlei 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 302 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.