Karry
Karry was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 1,848 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,610 Americans named Karry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 45 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karry?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,835, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
76 babies in 1971, the peak
Karry peaked in 1971, when 76 babies were given it (60 girls, #1,589 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,455 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,835 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,157 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,352 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,398 | 5 | #12,298 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,018 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,710 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,833 | 5 | #10,773 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,057 | 5 | #10,032 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,830 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 15 | #6,098 | 5 | #9,589 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,995 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,243 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,377 | 11 | #5,060 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,402 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,061 | 6 | #7,628 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,668 | 10 | #4,998 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,941 | 11 | #4,304 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,746 | 7 | #5,783 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,620 | 5 | #7,271 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,280 | 7 | #5,452 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,915 | 8 | #4,770 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,564 | 5 | #6,778 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,836 | 12 | #3,587 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,947 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,257 | 8 | #4,729 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,499 | 10 | #3,940 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,285 | 6 | #5,423 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,443 | 6 | #5,490 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,224 | 9 | #3,861 |
| 1975 | 44 | #2,002 | 12 | #3,150 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,275 | 15 | #2,613 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,812 | 14 | #2,654 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,868 | 16 | #2,372 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,589 | 16 | #2,417 |
| 1970 | 48 | #1,841 | 11 | #2,980 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,037 | 13 | #2,486 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,636 | 22 | #1,712 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,191 | 14 | #2,205 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,274 | 12 | #2,394 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,271 | 13 | #2,317 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,503 | 21 | #1,766 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,511 | 29 | #1,466 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,094 | 26 | #1,570 |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,054 | 26 | #1,583 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,542 | 35 | #1,349 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,548 | 19 | #1,892 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,705 | 17 | #1,986 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,088 | 20 | #1,816 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,580 | 17 | #1,982 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,294 | 16 | #2,004 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,839 | 10 | #2,662 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,797 | 11 | #2,457 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,963 | 15 | #2,037 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,594 | 13 | #2,191 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,674 | 12 | #2,270 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 17 | #1,853 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 8 | #2,901 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 9 | #2,769 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,698 | 5 | #3,774 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 7 | #2,873 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,679 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,942 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Karry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,848 Americans recorded as Karry, 65% are girls and 35% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karry, and how old are they?
1,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,848 Americans ever recorded as Karry. The median Karry alive today is 54 years old; half are between 45 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 1,816 people named Karry (1,251 women and girls, 565 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,675 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 442 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 758 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 327 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 66 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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).
How common is the spelling Karry?
Karry is a less common spelling of Carrie: SSA has recorded 1,848 Karry and 267,540 Carrie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 458,590 babies since 1880, Karry is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 711 babies recorded by SSA was a Karry (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Karry
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 Karry and names like it
- Compare Karry and CarrieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarry peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karry since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Karry.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Karry alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.