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How popular is “Karly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Karly” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Karly” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Karly” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Karly” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Karly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karly” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 25 0.000008287 25 100%
1974 47 0.000015461 47 100%
1975 30 0.000009936 30 100%
1976 44 0.000014501 44 100%
1977 56 0.000017629 56 100%
1978 75 0.00002363 70 5 87%
1979 62 0.000018635 62 100%
1980 96 0.00002787 96 100%
1981 107 0.00003093 107 100%
1982 118 0.000033638 118 100%
1983 117 0.000033782 117 100%
1984 150 0.000042995 150 100%
1985 163 0.00004567 163 100%
1986 134 0.000037671 134 100%
1987 179 0.000049645 179 100%
1988 174 0.00004709 174 100%
1989 186 0.000048381 186 100%
1990 217 0.000054902 217 100%
1991 373 0.000095757 373 100%
1992 421 0.000109599 421 100%
1993 427 0.000113254 427 100%
1994 398 0.000107057 398 100%
1995 378 0.000103218 378 100%
1996 383 0.000105012 383 100%
1997 355 0.000097911 355 100%
1998 370 0.000100592 370 100%
1999 344 0.000093127 344 100%
2000 336 0.000088891 336 100%
2001 323 0.000086285 323 100%
2002 297 0.000079448 297 100%
2003 303 0.000079688 303 100%
2004 341 0.000089245 341 100%
2005 329 0.000085569 329 100%
2006 249 0.000062939 249 100%
2007 262 0.000065538 262 100%
2008 342 0.000087008 342 100%
2009 290 0.000075913 290 100%
2010 288 0.000077928 288 100%
2011 256 0.000069988 256 100%
2012 218 0.000059606 218 100%
2013 253 0.000069397 253 100%
2014 177 0.000047756 177 100%
2015 178 0.000048096 178 100%
2016 177 0.000048246 177 100%
2017 152 0.000042503 152 100%
2018 119 0.000033846 119 100%
2019 105 0.000030251 105 100%
2020 85 0.000025445 85 100%
2021 68 0.000020071 68 100%
2022 80 0.000023647 80 100%
2023 69 0.000020838 69 100%
2024 69 0.00002073 69 100%

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