Carli is a 21st-century American feminine of Carl — Old Germanic karl (free man). Carli Lloyd (born 1982) — American soccer midfielder; two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion (2015, 2019); two Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012); FIFA Women's Player of the Year (2015, 2016). Her hat-trick in the first 16 minutes of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final against Japan — including a goal from the halfway line — is among the most iconic single performances in soccer history; she became the first player ever (any gender) to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final. Career US Women's National Team total: 134 goals, 316 caps. Retired in 2021 as the all-time leading goalscorer in the knockout rounds of FIFA Women's World Cup history. National Soccer Hall of Fame (2024).
Featured throughout 2010s American soccer.
Carli 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Carli reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.