Karlee

Karlee is a modern English feminine name, functioning as an elaborated spelling variant of Carley or Carly, themselves pet forms of Caroline or Carla. Those names ultimately trace back to the Germanic element karl, meaning man or free man, the same root that produced the medieval Latin Carolus and the English name Charles. The spelling with K and the double e ending reflects a 20th- and 21st-century trend of creating distinctive feminine forms through altered orthography. Related forms include Karlie, Carly, Carlee, and Karla.