Karli
Karli was given to 64 girls in 2025, #2,708 among girls’ names; 10,960 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,800 Americans named Karli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karli mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karli is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
A spelling variant of Carly.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karli?
#2,708 among girls’ names, 2025
Karli fell from #1,289 in 2015 to #2,708 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.04 per 1,000.
425 babies in 1994, the peak
Karli peaked in 1994, when 425 girls were given it, #559 among girls’ names. The 64 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,708 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,992 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 78 | #2,346 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,219 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,143 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,888 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,996 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,822 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,610 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,531 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 187 | #1,289 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 192 | #1,259 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,394 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,215 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 213 | #1,152 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 277 | #933 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 267 | #993 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 309 | #899 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 289 | #934 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 311 | #861 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 399 | #694 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 390 | #694 | 0.21 |
| 2003 | 324 | #768 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 398 | #639 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 359 | #693 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 394 | #635 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 372 | #633 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 406 | #596 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 416 | #566 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 374 | #612 | 0.21 |
| 1995 | 380 | #595 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 425 | #559 | 0.24 |
| 1993 | 353 | #636 | 0.20 |
| 1992 | 407 | #574 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 327 | #665 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 206 | #927 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 176 | #981 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 196 | #892 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 181 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 144 | #1,051 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 134 | #1,085 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 135 | #1,047 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 97 | #1,274 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 127 | #1,110 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,536 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,851 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 57 | #1,863 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,442 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,355 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 39 | #2,181 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,891 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,953 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,398 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,046 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,135 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,024 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karli, and how old are they?
10,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,960 Americans ever recorded as Karli. The median Karli alive today is 26 years old; half are between 18 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 9,703 people named Karli (9,681 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,376 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 355 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,500 |
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 Karli born?
The states with the most babies named Karli are Georgia, Texas and Ohio, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,456 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,553 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,579 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,321 | 0.6× |
| Arkansas | 5 | #610 | 0.5× |
Where Karli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karli is most over-represented in Utah: since 1961 it was given 2.1 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 Karli 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 372,611 babies since 1880, Karli is the seventh most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 1,194 babies (5.4%), 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 Karli
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 Karli and names like it
- Compare Karli and CarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarli peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karli since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Karli: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Karli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.