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Karrie

#12,524 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Carrie

Karrie has been given to 9,870 babies in the U.S. since 1936. In 2025 it ranked #12,524 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 505 recorded.

Babies named Karrie, 2025

1 in 474,000

Karrie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karrie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Carrie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karrie means

Karrie is a variant of Carrie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Karrie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæɹ.i/ and /ˈkɛɹ.i/ for Karrie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carrie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,870 girls were recorded with the name Karrie between 1936 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 505 in 1977; its best national rank was #409 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,257 in 2020 to #12,524 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,367 in 2015 to #12,524 in 2025.

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 Karrie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,524
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karrie 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karries were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karrie was born before 1975 — so the typical Karrie is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
9,819
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Choose a decade

1970s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (4,040).

Is Karrie 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
−900
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,733
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,157
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.4%
Peak was 1977 (505)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#409
1977

Spellings of Karrie

Karrie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 28.4% against Karrie's 0.52%.

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 Karrie is used

Across 1910–2025, Karrie was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 21,340 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 8,333
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 10,000
  3. 3Oregon1 in 11,111
  4. 4Utah1 in 11,111
  5. 5Washington1 in 11,111
  6. 6Indiana1 in 12,500
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  8. 8Iowa1 in 14,286

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. Karrie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karrie around the world

Where Karrie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1975–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • Ireland
    1987–1992
    #523
    in 1992
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1971–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Karrie

People whose public names include Karrie, 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.

Karrie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,524
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,733
Best rank ever
#409
1977
Peak year
1977
505 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,870
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Karrie

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

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Names with a curve like Karrie

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

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Sibling names for Karrie

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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