Karlee
#1,896 for girls in 2025, 103 births
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 482 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,647since 1956
Karlee over time
Rank among girls' names. Karlee has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,896 | 103 |
| 2024 | #1,698 | 120 |
| 2023 | #1,430 | 156 |
| 2022 | #1,172 | 206 |
| 2021 | #1,138 | 216 |
| 2020 | #1,031 | 243 |
| 2019 | #971 | 268 |
| 2018 | #928 | 288 |
| 2017 | #822 | 332 |
| 2016 | #765 | 373 |
| 2015 | #693 | 409 |
| 2014 | #684 | 414 |
| 2013 | #608 | 461 |
| 2012 | #692 | 406 |
| 2011 | #630 | 451 |
| 2010 | #658 | 445 |
| 2009 | #678 | 430 |
| 2008 | #602 | 511 |
| 2007 | #645 | 460 |
| 2006 | #649 | 446 |
| 2005 | #629 | 444 |
| 2004 | #583 | 482 |
| 2003 | #643 | 413 |
| 2002 | #664 | 383 |
| 2001 | #621 | 405 |
| 2000 | #608 | 417 |
| 1999 | #608 | 398 |
| 1998 | #592 | 408 |
| 1997 | #588 | 391 |
| 1996 | #616 | 370 |
| 1995 | #613 | 362 |
| 1994 | #615 | 361 |
| 1993 | #654 | 340 |
| 1992 | #607 | 374 |
| 1991 | #738 | 281 |
| 1990 | #1,198 | 142 |
| 1989 | #1,187 | 137 |
| 1988 | #1,196 | 126 |
| 1987 | #1,662 | 73 |
| 1986 | #1,439 | 89 |
| 1985 | #1,740 | 65 |
| 1984 | #1,751 | 62 |
| 1983 | #1,887 | 55 |
| 1982 | #2,150 | 47 |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 |
| 1979 | #2,477 | 37 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 |
| 1977 | #3,612 | 20 |
| 1976 | #2,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
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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 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#246 · 1 in 961
- Iowa#255 · 1 in 1,083
- West Virginia#284 · 1 in 1,169
- Mississippi#294 · 1 in 1,137
- Kentucky#308 · 1 in 1,450
Best ever in a state: #74 in Wyoming, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #246 | 13 | 1 in 961 |
| Iowa | #255 | 13 | 1 in 1,083 |
| West Virginia | #284 | 6 | 1 in 1,169 |
| Mississippi | #294 | 11 | 1 in 1,137 |
| Kentucky | #308 | 14 | 1 in 1,450 |
| Missouri | #313 | 19 | 1 in 1,563 |
| Idaho | #315 | 6 | 1 in 1,169 |
| Oklahoma | #315 | 13 | 1 in 1,346 |
| Utah | #321 | 14 | 1 in 1,348 |
| Louisiana | #359 | 12 | 1 in 1,667 |
| Alabama | #367 | 13 | 1 in 1,568 |
| Pennsylvania | #401 | 26 | 1 in 2,128 |
| Tennessee | #408 | 16 | 1 in 1,986 |
| Maryland | #437 | 12 | 1 in 2,096 |
| Indiana | #444 | 15 | 1 in 2,206 |
| Michigan | #494 | 17 | 1 in 2,776 |
| Ohio | #494 | 20 | 1 in 2,865 |
| Kansas | #581 | 5 | 1 in 2,764 |
| Oregon | #583 | 6 | 1 in 2,749 |
| Minnesota | #584 | 8 | 1 in 3,358 |
| Georgia | #637 | 16 | 1 in 3,365 |
| North Carolina | #652 | 13 | 1 in 3,623 |
| Florida | #691 | 22 | 1 in 4,051 |
| Wisconsin | #706 | 6 | 1 in 4,196 |
| Virginia | #792 | 8 | 1 in 4,733 |
| Colorado | #803 | 6 | 1 in 4,221 |
| Texas | #869 | 31 | 1 in 5,360 |
| Illinois | #972 | 11 | 1 in 6,195 |
| Washington | #998 | 5 | 1 in 6,126 |
| New York | #1,112 | 13 | 1 in 7,425 |
| California | #1,375 | 21 | 1 in 11,180 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Karlee
- 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)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2004 at #583 (482 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1991–2019
- 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
- 32.2% of all girls named Karlee (4,391) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,952 (1956) | #5,952 |
| 1960s | 14 | #5,168 (1960) | #5,231 |
| 1970s | 186 | #2,477 (1979) | #4,227 |
| 1980s | 733 | #1,187 (1989) | #1,789 |
| 1990s | 3,427 | #588 (1997) | #683 |
| 2000s | 4,391 | #583 (2004) | #632 |
| 2010s | 3,847 | #608 (2013) | #745 |
| 2020s | 1,044 | #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 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
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1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 4,263 of them was named Karlee, which outranked 96.8% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
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- #649Karlee446
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- #651Juliette445
- #651Shaniya445
- #653Aria444
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.