Karee
Feminine
Karee is given to both — 756 girls and 85 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Karee is recorded for boys and girls alike, and it sits one letter from a word that jewellers and goldsmiths still use daily. That word is a seed, chosen because the seeds are all the same weight.
How old is the name Karee?
Karee first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Karee alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 700 people named Karee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Karee most popular?
Karee peaked in 1958, reaching #1435 nationally. See the whole 1958 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Karee
Carob seeds are unusually uniform: pick any two off a tree and they will weigh nearly the same, which made them an excellent small unit before there were precision balances. Traders in the eastern Mediterranean used them to weigh gems, and the Greek word for the carob is where carat comes from. The same unit got a second job describing gold purity, where twenty-four carats means pure, because a mark of gold was reckoned in twenty-four of the same seeds. Modern metrology has fixed the gem carat at exactly a fifth of a gram and left the seeds behind, but the word is a tree's, and so is the reason it was ever chosen.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Kari, Carrie and Cara have all been offered and none is documented for this spelling. The record holds it for both sexes and explains neither.
Pronouncing Karee
kuh-REE
Two syllables with the weight on the second. KAR-ee, with the stress in front, is also heard.
Nicknames for Karee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 195855 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1435reached in 1958
- Change vs 2018
- −14.3%6 in 2019, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Karees among us
people named Karee are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Karee sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is short on paper and quick for a child to learn to write.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- Both short forms come off it without any work.
- Two stress patterns are in circulation and the spelling settles neither.
- Most children with this spelling are girls, but a real minority are boys; either may be taken for the other.
- No origin is documented, so the meaning question has nothing to answer with.
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Frequently asked
- How many Karees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Karee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Karee in 2025?
- Karee is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Karee with classmates?
- Karee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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