girls:
90.8k births since 1915
#397 (93rd percentile)
boys:
309 births since 1959
#4277 (7th percentile)
overall:
91.2k births since 1915
#732 (91st percentile)
The name Karla is the #732 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 91,159 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 90.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #397 (93.1% percentile) for all time with 90,850 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,277 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 309 births since 1959.
Karla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 1959 for boys). Birth data for Karla is available in 106 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (106 years for girls and 40 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Karla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Karla reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 80.7% percentile (ranked #173) with 932 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 1,052 births per million (ranked 77.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karla ranks #579 for girls (38.9% percentile) with 226 births per million, which is 21.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Karla reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #740) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 9 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karla".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Karla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Karla is pronounced as KAHR-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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