Karlee

#1,896 for girls in 2025, 103 births

Peak · girls
2004 · 482 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
13,647
since 1956

Karlee over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Karlee has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201956peak #583, 2004girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#1,896103
2024#1,698120
2023#1,430156
2022#1,172206
2021#1,138216
2020#1,031243
2019#971268
2018#928288
2017#822332
2016#765373
2015#693409
2014#684414
2013#608461
2012#692406
2011#630451
2010#658445
2009#678430
2008#602511
2007#645460
2006#649446
2005#629444
2004#583482
2003#643413
2002#664383
2001#621405
2000#608417
1999#608398
1998#592408
1997#588391
1996#616370
1995#613362
1994#615361
1993#654340
1992#607374
1991#738281
1990#1,198142
1989#1,187137
1988#1,196126
1987#1,66273
1986#1,43989
1985#1,74065
1984#1,75162
1983#1,88755
1982#2,15047
1981#2,34242
1980#2,53737
1979#2,47737
1978#2,94227
1977#3,61220
1976#2,93225
1975#3,40420
1974#3,69517
1973#3,48118
1972#5,10910
1971#6,6197
1970#7,9955
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First appearance
1956

The first year at least five girls were named Karlee! It came in at #5,952, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1956–1959, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Karlee is popular in 1956

No state had 5 or more girls named Karlee in 1956, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Karlee
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 198 spots since 2024 (#1,698 → #1,896)
  • 865 spots since 2020 (#1,031 → #1,896)
  • 1,203 spots since 2015 (#693 → #1,896)
  • Biggest jump: 460 spots in 1991 (#1,198 → #738)
  • Biggest drop: 106 spots in 2018 (#822 → #928)
Rise & fade · girls
48 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1956
  • Peaked 2004 at #583 (482 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 17 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 29 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1991–2019
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,700
  • Highest: 1 in 3,700 girls born in 2008 were named Karlee (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 15,605 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #583 in 2004, was only 1 in 3,810 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 32.2% of all girls named Karlee (4,391) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#5,952 (1956)#5,952
1960s14#5,168 (1960)#5,231
1970s186#2,477 (1979)#4,227
1980s733#1,187 (1989)#1,789
1990s3,427#588 (1997)#683
2000s4,391#583 (2004)#632
2010s3,847#608 (2013)#745
2020s1,044#1,031 (2020)#1,394

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Karlee in 1956

girls
#5,952
5 births · 1 in 401,541 girls

Top girls' names in 1956

  1. #1Mary61,741
  2. #2Debra48,324
  3. #3Linda48,084
  4. #4Deborah47,834
  5. #5Susan46,558
  6. #6Patricia43,329
  7. #7Karen40,052
  8. #8Cynthia32,339
  9. #9Barbara32,302
  10. #10Donna29,852
  11. #5,952Karlee5
More about 1956

girls

2,007,703 girls got a published name in 1956; 1 in 401,541 of them was named Karlee, which outranked 13.6% of the 6,891 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Karlee
  1. #5,325Yuvonne6
  2. #5,325Zelpha6
  3. #5,325Zerita6
  4. #5,952Karlee5
  5. #5,952Adelene5
  6. #5,952Adelmira5
  7. #5,952Adlene5

Tied with 939 names at #5,952; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1955
Risers
  1. ↑ 993Sheena#1,839 → #846
  2. ↑ 770Glendora#1,733 → #963
  3. ↑ 684Leesa#1,209 → #525
  4. ↑ 543Marisa#1,074 → #531
  5. ↑ 537Dani#1,383 → #846
Fallers
  1. ↓ 513Sheilah#663 → #1,176
  2. ↓ 481Jeryl#768 → #1,249
  3. ↓ 344Jacalyn#496 → #840
  4. ↓ 325Roni#536 → #861
  5. ↓ 314Florine#984 → #1,298

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1956 →