Karlin
- Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194
- #9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Given to girls 51.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1946 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 460since 1938
Karlin over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | — | #10,766 | 6 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | — | #7,640 | 9 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #4,193 | 9 | — | |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 | — | |
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| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1938
The first year at least five girls were named Karlin! It came in at #4,342, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1938–1945, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Karlin is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Karlin in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Karlin
Momentum · girls
Faded out
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · girls
8 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1938
- Peaked 1946 at #3,994 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1947, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 109,563
- Highest: 1 in 109,563 girls born in 1996 were named Karlin (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,994 in 1946, was only 1 in 224,472 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 25.7% of all girls named Karlin (118) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,342 (1938) | #4,342 |
| 1940s | 17 | #3,994 (1946) | #4,375 |
| 1950s | 33 | #4,193 (1958) | #5,016 |
| 1960s | 49 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,676 |
| 1970s | 42 | #4,761 (1970) | #6,369 |
| 1980s | 63 | #5,312 (1987) | #8,440 |
| 1990s | 118 | #5,771 (1996) | #7,476 |
| 2000s | 73 | #9,351 (2001) | #12,016 |
| 2010s | 55 | #8,875 (2016) | #12,561 |
| 2020s | 5 | #15,194 (2023) | #15,194 |
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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