Kareema
Kareema was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,071 among girls’ names; 792 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kareema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kareema?
#16,071 among girls’ names, 2025
Kareema entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,071 in 2025.
34 babies in 1984, the peak
Kareema peaked in 1984, when 34 girls were given it, #2,700 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,071 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,650 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,134 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,787 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,546 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,171 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,661 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,106 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,873 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,766 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #9,270 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,231 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,346 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,475 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,382 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,861 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,938 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,806 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,324 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,923 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,289 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,505 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,714 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,736 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,448 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,365 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,076 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,559 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,171 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,946 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,162 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,619 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,909 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,700 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,740 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,582 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,174 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,555 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,825 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,690 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,517 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,870 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,685 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,972 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,338 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,918 | 7.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kareema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kareema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kareema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kareema, and how old are they?
An estimated 771 Americans named Kareema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 781 people named Kareema (777 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 771 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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 Kareema born?
The states with the most babies named Kareema are Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 168 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Kareema is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kareema is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1972 it was given 4.8 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 Kareema 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,552 babies since 1880, Kareema is the third most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 160 babies (3.1%), the fourth 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 Kareema
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 Kareema and names like it
- Compare Kareema and KarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKareema peaked in 1984.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kareema since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Kareema.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kareema alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.