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Kariel

Gender
Girl
Say it
kar-ee-EL
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Kariel is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

Where does Kariel come from?

Modern

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

Kariel is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kariel in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Kariel, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2004, with 8 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.

2025 had more girls named Kariel than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Kariel in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1991Busiest: 8 in 20042025
Kariel in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20230–
20225#15,300
20215#15,246
20200–
20196#13,793
20180–
20178#11,611
20167#12,871
20150–
20146#14,552
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20080–
20075#17,630
20060–
20050–
20048#11,617
20030–
20020–
20015#15,345
20000–
19990–
19980–
19976#12,065
19960–
19950–
19940–
19935#13,435
19926#11,730
19915#13,139

Names like Kariel

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

Names related to Kariel

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Kariel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kariel, updated 20 October 2026.