Karley Girl
How popular is Karley?
#3,341 girl name in 2025
46 baby girls were named Karley in the US in 2025, making it the 3341st most popular girl name.
Karley popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,341 for girls (▼ 64 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 46 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-74% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,317 in 2015, #1,214 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2005 (317 girls) |
| Highest rank | #701 in 1994 |
| First recorded | 1972 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Karley counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Carly family of names ranked #295 for girls in 2025 (#272 the year before), with 1,113 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Carly | 248 | 22% |
| Karlee | 103 | 9% |
| Karlie | 85 | 8% |
| Carlee | 101 | 9% |
| Carlie | 65 | 6% |
| Karleigh | 45 | 4% |
| Carleigh | 67 | 6% |
| Carley | 63 | 6% |
| Karely | 74 | 7% |
| Karley | 46 | 4% |
| Karly | 66 | 6% |
| Karli | 64 | 6% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Karley is most popular
Babies named Karley per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- Georgia: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Missouri: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Karley by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 83 | #4,458 |
| 1980s | 414 | #1,920 |
| 1990s | 2,452 | #701 |
| 2000s | 2,825 | #817 |
| 2010s | 1,647 | #1,000 |
| 2020s | 534 | #1,214 |
Girl names about as popular as Karley
Questions
- Is Karley a boy or girl name?
- Karley is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Karley were girls.
- How popular is the name Karley?
- 46 baby girls were named Karley in the US in 2025, making it the 3341st most popular girl name.
- When was Karley most popular?
- Karley peaked in 2005, when 317 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #701 in 1994.
- How many people are named Karley?
- 7,955 babies have been named Karley in the US since 1880. We estimate about 7,863 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 23.
- Where is Karley most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Karley was most common in Mississippi, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.