girls:
13.4k births since 1956
#1337 (77th percentile)
overall:
13.4k births since 1956
#2260 (71st percentile)
The name Karlee is the #2,260 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,417 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 70.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,337 (76.6% percentile) for all time with 13,417 births since 1956.
Karlee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (first recorded for girls in 1956). Birth data for Karlee is available in 57 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Karlee reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 46.9% percentile (ranked #523) with 245 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 245 births per million (ranked 46.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karlee ranks #796 for girls (16.0% percentile) with 89 births per million, which is 36.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karlee".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Karlee is pronounced as KAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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