Karlita — girls' name
101 babies named Karlita in U.S. Social Security records since 1968, with the highest year being 1978. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Karlita was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Karlita in 1978 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Karlita
The Social Security Administration has registered 101 babies named Karlita between 1968 and 2023, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karlita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Karlita performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 31 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Karlita shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Karlita 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 101 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.
Karlita at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Karlita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1968
- Peak year (1978)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 56 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
101 total births across 56 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1978 with 8 births in a single year.
Karlita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 31 births that decade — 31% of Karlita's all-time total
Karlita decade highlights
- Peak decade 31 births
- Runner-up 22 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Karlita's strongest decade
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1968–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.