Karey
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Karey is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London. see Carey .
- CACanada≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 129K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 160K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
2,585 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): London. see Carey .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,585 | 1 in 129K | 2.1K | Karey | 289 |
| CA Canada | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 5 | Karey | 74 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Karey | 55 |
| IT Italy | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Karey | 6 |
| CO Colombia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 191K | — | Karey | 10 |
| CU Cuba | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Karey | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Karey | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Karey | 8 |
2,585 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ca-statcan-baby-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karey Kirkpatrickb. 1964USAmerican screenwriter, film director, and producer
- Karey Hanksb. 1970USAmerican politician from Idaho
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #6,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 457 | #6,245 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 119 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 115 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 109 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 92 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 90 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 88 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 82 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 80 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 71 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karey mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): London. see Carey . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Is Karey a male or female name?
- Karey is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Karey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Karey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karey.
- How common is the name Karey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,585 people named Karey in 2020, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kareyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Karey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.