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Karli

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#2,691 for girls

Karli is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,691st for girls in the US (64 babies).

What does Karli mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Karli is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 64 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Karli 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 26 girls.

Half of all the girls named Karli in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2011. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 26 in 19982022
Karli in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20221#7,487
20215#4,148
20203#5,734
20190–
20187#3,344
20173#5,998
20166#3,788
20152#7,531
20143#5,920
20135#4,267
20126#3,881
20117#3,360
20105#4,220
20096#3,603
20086#3,589
20074#4,494
20067#2,940
20055#3,543
20044#3,916
200312#1,730
200213#1,553
200110#1,832
200012#1,593
199911#1,653
199826#922
19978#2,073
19967#2,201

How popular is Karli in the US?

Rank in 2025
#2,691among girls
Babies in 2025
64about 1 in 25,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 37% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 64 girls in the US were named Karli, making it the 2,691st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,883rd. Its busiest year was 1994, with 425 girls. It first appears in the records in 1961.

Half of all the girls named Karli in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 777 girls in the US were given Karli or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #2,691 for this spelling alone.

1961Busiest: 425 in 19942025
Karli in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202564#2,691
202455#2,976
202378#2,336
202285#2,208
202188#2,131
2020102#1,883
201997#1,986
2018112#1,813
2017135#1,607
2016148#1,523
2015187#1,287
2014192#1,257
2013166#1,391
2012200#1,214
2011213#1,150
2010277#933
2009267#992
2008309#898
2007289#934
2006311#858
2005399#694
2004390#694
2003324#764
2002398#639
2001359#692
2000394#635
1999372#633
1998406#596
1997416#565
1996374#611
1995380#595
1994425#559
1993353#636
1992407#573
1991327#664
1990206#922
1989176#979
1988196#892
1987181#917
1986144#1,047
1985134#1,081
1984135#1,044
198397#1,272
1982127#1,107
198178#1,528
198059#1,833
197957#1,857
197844#2,125
197736#2,423
197635#2,334
197539#2,169
197446#1,881
197323#2,914
197213#4,299
19715#8,322
19708#5,817
19695#7,469
19680–
19670–
19666#5,808
19650–
19640–
19636#5,890
19620–
19615#6,566

Names like Karli

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

Other spellings of Karli

Names related to Karli

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