Karima
Karima was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,671 among girls’ names; 1,474 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Karima and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karima by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karima?
#7,671 among girls’ names, 2025
Karima rose from #9,795 in 2015 to #7,671 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 8.7 per million.
63 babies in 1979, the peak
Karima peaked in 1979, when 63 girls were given it, #1,742 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,671 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,886 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,264 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,779 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,820 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,482 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,929 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,355 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,245 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,783 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,795 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,578 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,566 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,000 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,892 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,060 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,874 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,729 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,566 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,474 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,681 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,132 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,981 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,825 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,083 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,395 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,239 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,552 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,911 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,242 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,045 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,055 | 21.3 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,625 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,295 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,800 | 22.4 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,618 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,952 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,229 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 29 | #3,210 | 16.7 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,255 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,348 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,590 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,017 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,792 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,885 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,368 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 63 | #1,742 | 39.2 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,069 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,043 | 30.7 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,647 | 41.0 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,113 | 28.1 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,011 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,326 | 22.6 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,193 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,195 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,045 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,985 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,180 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karima a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karima has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karima: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karima, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,474 Americans ever recorded as Karima. The median Karima alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 2,635 people named Karima (2,626 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,365 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 418 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 338 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 184 |
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 Karima born?
The states with the most babies named Karima are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 92% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 223 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 153 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New Jersey | 70 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 36 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Karima is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karima is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1967 it was given 2.3 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 Karima 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 20,147 babies since 1880, Karima is the fifth most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 231 babies (6.1%), 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 Karima
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 Karima and names like it
- Compare Karima and KarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarima peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karima since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Karima.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karima alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.