Karrie
Karrie was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,524 among girls’ names; 9,870 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,150 Americans named Karrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 44 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karrie?
#12,524 among girls’ names, 2025
Karrie fell from #11,367 in 2015 to #12,524 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 4.4 per million.
505 babies in 1977, the peak
Karrie peaked in 1977, when 505 girls were given it, #409 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,524 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,624 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,269 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,483 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,339 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,257 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,096 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,946 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,068 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,784 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,367 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,712 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,125 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,285 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,408 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,817 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,133 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,568 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,800 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,460 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,401 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,133 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,733 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,300 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,374 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,134 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,913 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,816 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,272 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,024 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,705 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,699 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,931 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,860 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 102 | #1,512 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 123 | #1,280 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 133 | #1,151 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 123 | #1,187 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 147 | #1,029 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 156 | #982 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 180 | #853 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 222 | #736 | 0.13 |
| 1982 | 251 | #698 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 228 | #724 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 272 | #662 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 349 | #538 | 0.22 |
| 1978 | 398 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1977 | 505 | #409 | 0.33 |
| 1976 | 426 | #452 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 451 | #440 | 0.31 |
| 1974 | 389 | #463 | 0.27 |
| 1973 | 415 | #450 | 0.28 |
| 1972 | 376 | #478 | 0.25 |
| 1971 | 394 | #489 | 0.24 |
| 1970 | 337 | #551 | 0.19 |
| 1969 | 301 | #567 | 0.18 |
| 1968 | 310 | #551 | 0.19 |
| 1967 | 241 | #612 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 172 | #749 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 182 | #740 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 222 | #689 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 226 | #671 | 0.12 |
| 1962 | 194 | #740 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 171 | #800 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 190 | #736 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 172 | #778 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 117 | #955 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 80 | #1,181 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 70 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,001 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,986 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,169 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,971 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,281 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,350 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,824 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,263 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,533 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karrie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karrie, and how old are they?
9,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 9,870 Americans ever recorded as Karrie. The median Karrie alive today is 51 years old; half are between 44 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 8,839 people named Karrie (8,792 women and girls, 47 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,319 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,360 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 452 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
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 Karrie born?
The states with the most babies named Karrie are California, Michigan and Illinois, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,037 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 732 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 537 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 525 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 513 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 371 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 334 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Indiana | 289 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 277 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 235 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Karrie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karrie is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1936 it was given 1.7 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 Karrie 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 Karrie?
Karrie is a less common spelling of Carrie: SSA has recorded 9,870 Karrie and 267,540 Carrie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 362,582 babies since 1880, Karrie is the third most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 485 babies (1.4%), the fifth 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 Karrie
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 Karrie and names like it
- Compare Karrie and CarrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarrie peaked in 1977.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karrie since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Karrie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Karrie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.