Karla
Karla is ranked 730th among girls in 2024 (385 births). Its best rank was 175th, in 2002.
- Rank in 2024
- #730down 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3850.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19642,060 births
- Best rank
- #175in 2002
- Since 1915
- 91,241people given the name
The story in the numbers
91,241 girls have been named Karla in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 2,060 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 503 → 730).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 1960s alone account for 19%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Karla | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | |
| 1920s | 65 | |
| 1930s | 536 | |
| 1940s | 3,102 | |
| 1950s | 11,463 | |
| 1960s | 17,716 | |
| 1970s | 11,367 | |
| 1980s | 9,360 | |
| 1990s | 12,870 | |
| 2000s | 16,144 | |
| 2010s | 6,553 | |
| 2020s | 2,039 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Karla was the 182nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Karla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maurapeak 1964
- Lourdespeak 1963
- Dennisepeak 2001
- Annamariapeak 1966
- Delanapeak 1969
- Gracielapeak 1998
- Sindypeak 1979
- Synthiapeak 1965
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.