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Karlie

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#2,173 for girls

Karlie is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,173rd for girls in the US (85 babies).

What does Karlie mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Karlie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 85 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Karlie 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 21 girls.

Half of all the girls named Karlie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2013. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 21 in 19982022
Karlie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20224#4,870
20211#7,491
20207#3,274
20195#4,214
201810#2,631
20178#3,102
201610#2,692
20157#3,433
20145#4,187
201312#2,309
201211#2,463
201114#2,032
201014#2,004
200912#2,153
200816#1,745
20077#3,060
200619#1,418
20059#2,360
20047#2,669
200310#1,954
200214#1,475
20014#3,427
20006#2,554
199914#1,415
199821#1,080
19977#2,281
199616#1,244

How popular is Karlie in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,173rd among girls
Babies in 2025
85 about 1 in 19,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 54% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 85 girls in the US were named Karlie, making it the 2,173rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,201st. Its busiest year was 2004, with 445 girls. It first appears in the records in 1966.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 6 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Karlie than any year since 1986.

Half of all the girls named Karlie in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 777 girls in the US were given Karlie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #2,173 for this spelling alone.

1966Busiest: 445 in 20042025
Karlie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202585#2,173
2024105#1,895
2023124#1,669
2022137#1,556
2021173#1,304
2020191#1,201
2019247#1,036
2018243#1,053
2017276#959
2016328#858
2015343#818
2014308#884
2013283#902
2012271#942
2011283#918
2010339#805
2009268#988
2008358#805
2007382#764
2006359#765
2005400#693
2004445#617
2003376#695
2002356#702
2001367#680
2000361#670
1999345#663
1998400#599
1997359#625
1996368#620
1995346#630
1994377#596
1993329#667
1992297#718
1991232#858
1990162#1,086
1989122#1,285
1988124#1,209
198799#1,370
198685#1,472
198560#1,855
198459#1,812
198356#1,857
198249#2,082
198142#2,342
198028#3,069
197922#3,541
197817#4,079
197719#3,760
197620#3,406
197520#3,403
197419#3,426
197311#4,869
19726#7,290
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19665#6,563

Names like Karlie

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

Other spellings of Karlie

Names related to Karlie

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