girls:
10.7k births since 1972
#1521 (73rd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1978
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
10.7k births since 1972
#2556 (67th percentile)
The name Karly is the #2,556 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,734 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 67.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,521 (73.4% percentile) for all time with 10,729 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1978.
Karly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 1978 for boys).
The name Karly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Karly reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 44.5% percentile (ranked #477) with 210 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 217 births per million (ranked 43.8% percentile). Despite a low point in 2010, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Karly ranks #883 for girls (6.8% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 18.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Karly reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #676) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Karly is pronounced as KAHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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