Karla

What Karla means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Karla yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 2,060 babies; 340 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Karla?

US: Falling: down from #510 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1497 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1964, when 2,060 girls got the name (#182 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 4,727 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 25,328 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AZ (0.5 per 1,000 girls), CO (0.47 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.4 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Karla is #799 in the US and #2605 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Karla were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Carla223 US · 38 E&W
• Carly248 US · 7 E&W
• Karlee103 US
• Karly66 US
• Karli64 US
• Karley46 US
• Karol45 US
• Carli45 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Carla

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Karla

Girls

• Abby#731Diminutive of Abigail, meaning “my Father's joy”^*
• Alyssa#453“a plant of the genus Alyssum”^*
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Alicia#460Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025
• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*
• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*

For a brother

• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Garrett#564Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #269 in 2015, #564 in 2025
• Drew#553Diminutive of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Skyler#783Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #360 in 2015, #783 in 2025
• Lance#862Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 4,160 babies; 279 in 2025
• Erick#366Editor’s note Down from #265 in 2015 to #366 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Karla’s. Rank is US 2025.