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Karey

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Karey has been given to 2,771 babies in the U.S. since 1941. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1975, with 119 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.

Babies named Karey, 2015

1 in 740,000

Karey over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Karey over time

In 2015, Karey went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19372015

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Karey: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karey means

Karey is a given name.

The naming story behind Karey

Wikidata records Karey as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q111911807, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,187 girls were recorded with the name Karey between 1941 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,015 in 1975.

In the United States, 584 boys were recorded with the name Karey between 1937 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1960; its best national rank was #1,747 in 1960.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Karey?

Karey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kareys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karey was born before 1974 — so the typical Karey is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,153
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (902).

Is Karey rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1975 (119)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,015
1975

Spellings of Karey

Karey is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 59.2% against Karey's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Karey is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Karey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 178,949 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Karey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Karey is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Karey was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,211,363 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Karey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karey around the world

Where Karey ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Ireland
    1991–1991
    #515
    in 1991
  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,397
    in 1991

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Karey

People whose public names include Karey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Karey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,015
1975
Peak year
1975
119 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
2,187
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,747
1960
Peak year
1960
22 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
584
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Karey

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Karey, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CristieDioneShonaCristiPatrinaShonnaLarondaRolandaMalisaJenineSebrinaTwana

Sibling names for Karey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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