Karlo
- #3,658 for boys in 2025, 30 births
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,061since 1959
Karlo over time
Rank among boys' names. Karlo has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,658 | 30 |
| 2024 | #3,394 | 34 |
| 2023 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #4,639 | 21 |
| 2018 | #4,610 | 21 |
| 2017 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #3,617 | 29 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #2,958 | 39 |
| 2009 | #3,332 | 33 |
| 2008 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | #3,227 | 33 |
| 2005 | #3,241 | 31 |
| 2004 | #3,217 | 30 |
| 2003 | #2,993 | 32 |
| 2002 | #4,044 | 20 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #3,922 | 20 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #3,412 | 12 |
| 1980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #3,018 | 14 |
| 1978 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #3,264 | 11 |
| 1975 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #3,071 | 10 |
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| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
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| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Karlo! It came in at #3,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1963, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Karlo is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,285 · 1 in 29,175
- California#2,471 · 1 in 35,095
Best ever in a state: #1,054 in Florida, 1992.
Show every state
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| Texas | #2,285 | 6 | 1 in 29,175 |
| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Karlo
- 264 spots since 2024 (#3,394 → #3,658)
- 1,383 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #3,658)
- 2,088 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #3,658)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 1985 at #2,710 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 49,197 boys born in 2010 were named Karlo (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 56,936 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,710 in 1985, was only 1 in 102,678 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.6% of all boys named Karlo (272) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 6 | #3,619 (1959) | #3,619 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,601 |
| 1970s | 82 | #2,799 (1974) | #3,508 |
| 1980s | 115 | #2,710 (1985) | #4,033 |
| 1990s | 148 | #2,999 (1992) | #4,274 |
| 2000s | 272 | #2,993 (2003) | #3,571 |
| 2010s | 254 | #2,958 (2010) | #4,182 |
| 2020s | 178 | #3,394 (2024) | #3,785 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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