Karem — unisex name

What the Data Says About Karem

The Social Security Administration has registered 233 babies named Karem between 1973 and 2010, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karem currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Karem is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 129 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karem performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Karem shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 29 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Karem in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karem in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 233 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.