Entry № 5250 · English origin

Karlie Karlie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAR-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Free woman (Karlie Kloss; Code with Klossy founder)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "free woman (karlie kloss; code with klossy founder)".

Karlie is the modern English feminine of Karl / Charles — from the Old Germanic karl (free man). Founded Code with Klossy in 2015 — free summer programming courses for teen girls; by 2024 the organization had served 15,000+ scholars in 50 US states. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Married Joshua Kushner (brother of Jared) in 2018. Major: 2024 partnership with The Wing. In 2023, became a Senior Advisor at Code.org. Karlie Redd (Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta).

Free woman. Code with Klossy has trained 15,000+ teen girls in coding since 2015.

The name in its native script.

Karlie
Transliteration
Karlie
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːr.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Karlie stands.

Karlie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Karlies before her.

Real people
Karlie Kloss
American supermodel and STEM advocate.
born 1992
In fiction
Karlie
Various American fashion media.

Names connected to Karlie.

The number behind Karlie.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Karlie reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.