Carma
Carma was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,253 among girls’ names; 4,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Carma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 34 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carma?
#10,253 among girls’ names, 2025
Carma fell from #4,513 in 2015 to #10,253 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 5.6 per million.
76 babies in 1961, the peak
Carma peaked in 1961, when 76 girls were given it, #1,269 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,253 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,322 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,717 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,551 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,320 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,698 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,774 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,643 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,089 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,667 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,513 | 17.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,479 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,084 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,230 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,707 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,040 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,031 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,791 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,145 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,680 | 22.1 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,462 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,500 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,661 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,112 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,868 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,013 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,310 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,769 | 7.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,211 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,181 | 6.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,988 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,720 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,925 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,025 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,196 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,906 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,810 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,722 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,884 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,256 | 15.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,188 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,636 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,867 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,455 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,282 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,183 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,105 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,237 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,138 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,945 | 28.8 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,787 | 31.6 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,807 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,722 | 30.3 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,030 | 22.5 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,681 | 29.3 |
| 1967 | 54 | #1,524 | 32.7 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,716 | 25.4 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,578 | 28.3 |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,669 | 25.3 |
| 1963 | 57 | #1,479 | 29.6 |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,456 | 29.5 |
| 1961 | 76 | #1,269 | 37.7 |
| 1960 | 74 | #1,279 | 36.6 |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,229 | 37.1 |
| 1958 | 67 | #1,293 | 33.3 |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,459 | 25.9 |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,287 | 32.4 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,337 | 29.2 |
| 1954 | 71 | #1,188 | 36.6 |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,357 | 27.1 |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,368 | 27.0 |
| 1951 | 72 | #1,097 | 40.0 |
| 1950 | 62 | #1,171 | 36.2 |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,251 | 31.0 |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,161 | 35.3 |
| 1947 | 69 | #1,068 | 38.9 |
| 1946 | 56 | #1,131 | 35.6 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,187 | 33.7 |
| 1944 | 47 | #1,140 | 35.4 |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,125 | 36.6 |
| 1942 | 67 | #954 | 49.6 |
| 1941 | 57 | #970 | 47.2 |
| 1940 | 63 | #906 | 55.1 |
| 1939 | 60 | #906 | 54.7 |
| 1938 | 59 | #924 | 53.5 |
| 1937 | 56 | #920 | 52.6 |
| 1936 | 68 | #816 | 65.4 |
| 1935 | 75 | #780 | 71.5 |
| 1934 | 73 | #789 | 69.9 |
| 1933 | 56 | #905 | 55.6 |
| 1932 | 59 | #913 | 55.3 |
| 1931 | 48 | #1,012 | 45.1 |
| 1930 | 58 | #960 | 51.5 |
| 1929 | 55 | #968 | 49.3 |
| 1928 | 61 | #957 | 52.9 |
| 1927 | 53 | #1,057 | 44.4 |
| 1926 | 51 | #1,045 | 43.0 |
| 1925 | 44 | #1,162 | 36.1 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,616 | 22.4 |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,642 | 21.6 |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,090 | 40.8 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,487 | 25.1 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,672 | 20.9 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,572 | 23.0 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,974 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,438 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,591 | 22.0 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,446 | 25.4 |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,307 | 30.2 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,688 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,864 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,994 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,466 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,490 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,896 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,117 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,992 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,730 | 20.6 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,582 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 119 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carma, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 62% of the 4,169 Americans ever recorded as Carma. The median Carma alive today is 60 years old; half are between 34 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 2,753 people named Carma (2,741 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,831 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 306 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 911 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 559 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 179 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 380 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 240 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Carma born?
The states with the most babies named Carma are Utah, Idaho and Ohio, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah and Idaho are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 532 | not ranked | 16.2× |
| Idaho | 155 | not ranked | 8.0× |
| Ohio | 153 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Iowa | 56 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 48 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 19 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kansas | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| West Virginia | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Carma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carma is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 16.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carma with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,057 babies since 1880, Carma is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 170 babies (5.3%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carma
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carma and names like it
- Compare Carma and KarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCarma peaked in 1961.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carma since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Carma.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carma alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.