Karley
#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 298 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,955since 1972
Karley over time
Rank among girls' names. Karley has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,342 | 46 |
| 2024 | #3,277 | 48 |
| 2023 | #2,891 | 58 |
| 2022 | #2,463 | 73 |
| 2021 | #1,710 | 121 |
| 2020 | #1,214 | 188 |
| 2019 | #1,971 | 98 |
| 2018 | #1,640 | 129 |
| 2017 | #1,677 | 128 |
| 2016 | #1,628 | 134 |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 180 |
| 2014 | #1,410 | 162 |
| 2013 | #1,248 | 191 |
| 2012 | #1,432 | 159 |
| 2011 | #1,138 | 215 |
| 2010 | #1,000 | 251 |
| 2009 | #983 | 269 |
| 2008 | #911 | 301 |
| 2007 | #901 | 306 |
| 2006 | #913 | 289 |
| 2005 | #817 | 317 |
| 2004 | #865 | 284 |
| 2003 | #839 | 291 |
| 2002 | #956 | 233 |
| 2001 | #860 | 265 |
| 2000 | #830 | 270 |
| 1999 | #764 | 290 |
| 1998 | #711 | 311 |
| 1997 | #808 | 257 |
| 1996 | #740 | 285 |
| 1995 | #859 | 226 |
| 1994 | #702 | 298 |
| 1993 | #754 | 275 |
| 1992 | #797 | 253 |
| 1991 | #1,083 | 167 |
| 1990 | #1,644 | 90 |
| 1989 | #1,925 | 67 |
| 1988 | #2,071 | 56 |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 |
| 1986 | #1,980 | 55 |
| 1985 | #2,021 | 53 |
| 1984 | #2,340 | 41 |
| 1983 | #3,065 | 27 |
| 1982 | #3,260 | 26 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karley! It came in at #6,558, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Karley is popular in 1972
No state had 5 or more girls named Karley in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Karley
- 65 spots since 2024 (#3,277 → #3,342)
- 2,128 spots since 2020 (#1,214 → #3,342)
- 2,025 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #3,342)
- Biggest jump: 286 spots in 1992 (#1,083 → #797)
- Biggest drop: 157 spots in 1995 (#702 → #859)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1994 at #702 (298 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1992–2010
- Highest: 1 in 5,682 girls born in 1998 were named Karley (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #702 in 1994, was only 1 in 5,992 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.5% of all girls named Karley (2,825) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 83 | #4,459 (1978) | #5,701 |
| 1980s | 414 | #1,925 (1989) | #2,640 |
| 1990s | 2,452 | #702 (1994) | #886 |
| 2000s | 2,825 | #817 (2005) | #888 |
| 2010s | 1,647 | #1,000 (2010) | #1,446 |
| 2020s | 534 | #1,214 (2020) | #2,483 |
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.
Karley in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 217,321 of them was named Karley, which outranked 32.2% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,959Zoie8
- #5,959Zona8
- #5,959Zuleika8
- #6,558Karley7
- #6,558Acacia7
- #6,558Acquanetta7
- #6,558Adel7
- #7,292Adonia6
- #7,292Afua6
- #7,292Aggie6
Tied with 733 names at #6,558; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.