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Karly

Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#2,607 for girls

Karly is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,607th for girls in the US (66 babies).

What does Karly mean?

Germanic

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Karly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 66 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Karly 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 31 girls.

Half of all the girls named Karly in the UK since 1996 were born between 2001 and 2010. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 31 in 20092021
Karly in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20211#7,491
20202#7,238
20192#7,280
20183#5,896
20179#2,864
201610#2,692
20155#4,294
20149#2,809
201315#1,964
201216#1,914
201120#1,570
201029#1,200
200931#1,093
200822#1,390
200729#1,082
200619#1,418
200510#2,206
200412#1,812
200316#1,420
200212#1,649
200111#1,723
200016#1,290
199915#1,347
199821#1,080
199721#1,053
199616#1,244

How popular is Karly in the US?

Rank in 2025
#2,607among girls
Babies in 2025
66about 1 in 24,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 34% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 66 girls in the US were named Karly, making it the 2,607th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,135th. Its busiest year was 1993, with 427 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.

2025 had fewer girls named Karly than any year since 1979.

Half of all the girls named Karly 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 Karly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #2,607 for this spelling alone.

1972Busiest: 427 in 19932025
Karly in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202566#2,607
202469#2,559
202369#2,555
202280#2,319
202168#2,558
202085#2,135
2019105#1,898
2018119#1,727
2017152#1,475
2016177#1,338
2015178#1,329
2014177#1,333
2013253#988
2012218#1,128
2011256#992
2010288#907
2009290#923
2008342#830
2007262#1,012
2006249#1,026
2005329#789
2004341#764
2003303#815
2002297#790
2001323#740
2000336#697
1999344#665
1998370#629
1997355#630
1996383#595
1995378#596
1994398#577
1993427#558
1992421#558
1991373#604
1990217#888
1989186#947
1988174#957
1987179#924
1986134#1,105
1985163#950
1984150#963
1983117#1,137
1982118#1,167
1981107#1,220
198096#1,318
197962#1,753
197870#1,558
197756#1,801
197644#1,996
197530#2,565
197447#1,848
197325#2,753
197210#5,108

Names like Karly

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

Other spellings of Karly

Names related to Karly

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