Karly

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Karly: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Karly: Recorded since 1996, it reached #366 in 2010, and it was last ranked in 2019.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#366highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2017

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1755
1997	#1176
1998	#1392
1999	#1970
2000	#1831
2001	#2466
2002	#2105
2003	#1628
2004	#2802
2005	#2682
2006	#1862
2007	#1384
2008	#1718
2009	#1837
2010	#2235
2011	#2636
2012	#2969
2013	#3160
2014	#4684
2016	#4096
2017	#5765

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 21 of the 22 years from 1996 to 2017.

In 2014: #876 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4684 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2019 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1755 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2019
Most recently recorded at #871 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2019.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Karly appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 201 births with the name.

Karly across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Karly's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#1755 (1996)	#1176 (1997)	#5765 (2017)	21 of 22	201 (1996–2017)	19 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#555 (2010)	#871 (2019)	4 of 11	16 (2009–2019)	7 (2010)

Karly by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Karly in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	46	4 of 10	12
2000sbusiest	108	10 of 10	11
2010s	47	7 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Karly appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #366 in Northern Ireland in 2010.

Karly's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1837	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1384	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1862	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1628	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1392	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1176	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1755	9	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#366	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	7	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2019, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #366, first reached in 2010.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 14 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Karmen · #1854, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ava-Mae · #366, 19y
Mayah · #366, 24y
Yvie · #366, 19y
Abeeha · #365, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Asad · #366, 29y
Mayah · #366, 24y
Yvie · #366, 19y
Aliya · #367, 30y

Karly was ranked #366 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2010. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Karly and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Karly without appearing here.

Karly moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #2466 and #3998.
Vicki Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2466 and #2023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #3409.

Moved ahead of Karly

Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3160 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.
Finley Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4096 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #3583.
Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3160 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2120.
Freddie Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1837 and #5556 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #4063.

Moved the opposite way to Karly

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 while Ada went from #2683 to #114.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 while Alma went from #2096 to #413.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 while Alyssa went from #783 to #242.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 while Amalie went from #2096 to #740.

Moved the same way as Karly

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 and Abigail from #21 to #73.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 and Aimee from #70 to #448.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 and Aisling from #440 to #1681.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales · Girls, Karly went from #1755 to #5765 and Alex from #161 to #1411.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2019. Highest recorded position: #366 in Northern Ireland in 2010. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Karly

Karly at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Karly across 2 official records

Karly by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Karly appears in

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Karly across 2 official records

Karly by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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