Karli
- #2,691 for girls in 2025, 64 births
- Peak · girls
- 1994 · 425 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,960since 1961
Karli over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Karli has never cracked the top 500 here.
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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 | #2,691 | 64 |
| 2024 | #2,976 | 55 |
| 2023 | #2,336 | 78 |
| 2022 | #2,208 | 85 |
| 2021 | #2,131 | 88 |
| 2020 | #1,883 | 102 |
| 2019 | #1,986 | 97 |
| 2018 | #1,813 | 112 |
| 2017 | #1,607 | 135 |
| 2016 | #1,523 | 148 |
| 2015 | #1,287 | 187 |
| 2014 | #1,257 | 192 |
| 2013 | #1,391 | 166 |
| 2012 | #1,214 | 200 |
| 2011 | #1,150 | 213 |
| 2010 | #933 | 277 |
| 2009 | #992 | 267 |
| 2008 | #898 | 309 |
| 2007 | #934 | 289 |
| 2006 | #858 | 311 |
| 2005 | #694 | 399 |
| 2004 | #694 | 390 |
| 2003 | #764 | 324 |
| 2002 | #639 | 398 |
| 2001 | #692 | 359 |
| 2000 | #635 | 394 |
| 1999 | #633 | 372 |
| 1998 | #596 | 406 |
| 1997 | #565 | 416 |
| 1996 | #611 | 374 |
| 1995 | #595 | 380 |
| 1994 | #559 | 425 |
| 1993 | #636 | 353 |
| 1992 | #573 | 407 |
| 1991 | #664 | 327 |
| 1990 | #924 | 206 |
| 1989 | #982 | 176 |
| 1988 | #892 | 196 |
| 1987 | #917 | 181 |
| 1986 | #1,047 | 144 |
| 1985 | #1,081 | 134 |
| 1984 | #1,044 | 135 |
| 1983 | #1,272 | 97 |
| 1982 | #1,107 | 127 |
| 1981 | #1,528 | 78 |
| 1980 | #1,833 | 59 |
| 1979 | #1,857 | 57 |
| 1978 | #2,125 | 44 |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 |
| 1976 | #2,334 | 35 |
| 1975 | #2,169 | 39 |
| 1974 | #1,881 | 46 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
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First appearance
1961
The first year at least five girls were named Karli! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Karli is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,119 |
| Georgia | #1,358 | 6 | 1 in 7,535 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| Florida | #2,151 | 5 | 1 in 17,352 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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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.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 285 spots since 2024 (#2,976 → #2,691)
- 808 spots since 2020 (#1,883 → #2,691)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1991
- Biggest drop: 217 spots in 2011
Rise & fade · girls
33 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 1994 at #559 (425 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 18 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 24 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1987–2010
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,184
- Highest: 1 in 4,184 girls born in 1997 were named Karli (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,114 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #559 in 1994, was only 1 in 4,202 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 33.4% of all girls named Karli (3,666) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 22 | #5,809 (1966) | #6,435 |
| 1970s | 306 | #1,857 (1979) | #3,415 |
| 1980s | 1,327 | #892 (1988) | #1,170 |
| 1990s | 3,666 | #559 (1994) | #636 |
| 2000s | 3,440 | #635 (2000) | #780 |
| 2010s | 1,727 | #933 (2010) | #1,416 |
| 2020s | 472 | #1,883 (2020) | #2,371 |
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.
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