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Karley

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#3,341 for girls

Karley is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,341st for girls in the US (46 babies).

What does Karley mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Karley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 46 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Karley in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 10 girls.

Half of all the girls named Karley in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2010. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 10 in 20092018
Karley in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20185#4,204
20170–
20162#7,579
20152#7,531
20143#5,920
20134#4,953
20126#3,881
20117#3,360
20105#4,220
200910#2,478
20088#2,895
20078#2,790
20066#3,280
20051#6,340
20049#2,226
20035#3,233
20026#2,691
20015#2,928
20001#5,280
19998#2,089
19989#1,951
19979#1,927
19969#1,862

How popular is Karley in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,341among girls
Babies in 2025
46about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling fastdown 63% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 46 girls in the US were named Karley, making it the 3,341st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,214th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 317 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Karley than any year since 1984.

Half of all the girls named Karley in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 109 girls in the US were given Karley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,599, up from #3,341 for this spelling alone.

1972Busiest: 317 in 20052025
Karley in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202546#3,341
202448#3,277
202358#2,891
202273#2,463
2021121#1,710
2020188#1,214
201998#1,971
2018129#1,640
2017128#1,677
2016134#1,628
2015180#1,317
2014162#1,410
2013191#1,248
2012159#1,432
2011215#1,138
2010251#1,000
2009269#983
2008301#911
2007306#901
2006289#913
2005317#817
2004284#865
2003291#839
2002233#955
2001265#860
2000270#830
1999290#763
1998311#711
1997257#808
1996285#740
1995226#858
1994298#701
1993275#753
1992253#795
1991167#1,080
199090#1,640
198967#1,920
198856#2,066
198747#2,274
198655#1,979
198553#2,020
198441#2,339
198327#3,064
198226#3,259
198121#3,738
198021#3,718
197915#4,625
197815#4,459
19778#6,890
19769#6,046
19758#6,482
197413#4,458
19738#6,078
19727#6,556

Names like Karley

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

Other spellings of Karley

Names related to Karley

More Germanic names

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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, “Karley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/karley, updated 20 October 2026.