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Carli

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#3,388 for girls

Carli is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,388th for girls in the US (45 babies).

What does Carli mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Carli a girl's or a boy's name?

Carli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 45 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Carli in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 16 girls.

Half of all the girls named Carli in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2007. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 16 in 19982019
Carli in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20191#7,346
20181#7,536
20171#7,682
20160–
20151#7,629
20141#7,592
20135#4,267
20124#5,058
20111#7,717
20107#3,308
20094#4,795
20084#4,742
20076#3,396
200611#2,119
20055#3,543
20041#6,173
20034#3,768
20020–
20019#1,974
200010#1,792
199910#1,770
199816#1,289
19977#2,281
199614#1,381

How popular is Carli in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,388among girls
Babies in 2025
45about 1 in 36,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 50% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 45 girls in the US were named Carli, making it the 3,388th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,649th. Its busiest year was 1996, with 365 girls. It first appears in the records in 1957.

2025 had fewer girls named Carli than any year since 1976.

Half of all the girls named Carli in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 777 girls in the US were given Carli or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #3,388 for this spelling alone.

1957Busiest: 365 in 19962025
Carli in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202545#3,388
202454#3,013
202361#2,789
202257#2,928
202177#2,345
2020125#1,649
201988#2,128
2018108#1,869
2017123#1,721
2016157#1,465
2015148#1,520
2014110#1,838
2013142#1,539
2012167#1,390
2011159#1,427
2010197#1,223
2009187#1,292
2008251#1,043
2007205#1,217
2006227#1,102
2005242#1,008
2004241#985
2003283#853
2002261#875
2001298#792
2000311#742
1999310#726
1998355#649
1997324#671
1996365#622
1995324#659
1994324#660
1993300#711
1992299#714
1991265#776
1990168#1,055
1989145#1,134
1988169#979
1987149#1,038
1986150#1,018
1985128#1,128
1984129#1,080
1983114#1,159
1982122#1,152
198190#1,368
198056#1,904
197971#1,596
197851#1,915
197751#1,922
197644#1,996
197554#1,729
197444#1,937
197322#3,014
197214#4,091
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19576#5,376

Names like Carli

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Carli

Names related to Carli

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Carli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/carli, updated 20 October 2026.