Karimah
Karimah was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 588 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karimah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karimah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,428, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1992, the peak
Karimah peaked in 1992, when 27 girls were given it, #3,904 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #14,428 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,426 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,593 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,739 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,942 | 4.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,245 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,777 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,482 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,571 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,212 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #12,734 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,816 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,700 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,087 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,127 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,960 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,509 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,153 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,767 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,868 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,787 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,289 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,527 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,257 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,738 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,906 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,592 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,341 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,312 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,904 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,154 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,429 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,195 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,847 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,096 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,398 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,495 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,056 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,277 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,605 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,415 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,688 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,119 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,722 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,171 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,019 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,560 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,148 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,848 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,251 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,800 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karimah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karimah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karimah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karimah, and how old are they?
An estimated 573 Americans named Karimah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 23 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 524 people named Karimah (520 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,135 babies since 1880, Karimah is the fourth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 203 babies recorded by SSA was a Karimah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Karimah
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 Karimah and names like it
- Compare Karimah and KarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarimah peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karimah since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Karimah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Karimah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.