Karime
Karime was given to 43 girls in 2025, #3,545 among girls’ names; 2,581 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,550 Americans named Karime and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karime by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karime?
#3,545 among girls’ names, 2025
Karime fell from #3,410 in 2015 to #3,545 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 26.3 to 26.8 per million.
218 babies in 2004, the peak
Karime peaked in 2004, when 218 girls were given it, #1,064 among girls’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,545 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,429 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,801 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,098 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,272 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,043 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,908 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,082 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,331 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,994 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,410 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,095 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,289 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,790 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 86 | #2,207 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,050 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,730 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 162 | #1,458 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 149 | #1,542 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 144 | #1,526 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,551 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 218 | #1,064 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 151 | #1,343 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,539 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 145 | #1,325 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,608 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,759 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,183 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,638 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,394 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,772 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,119 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,239 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,458 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,262 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,665 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,443 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,553 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,027 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,124 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karime a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karime has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karime: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karime, and how old are they?
2,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,581 Americans ever recorded as Karime. The median Karime alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,315 people named Karime (2,278 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,304 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 121 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 630 |
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 Karime born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,669 | 3.1× |
| California | 9 | #2,187 | 1.7× |
Where Karime is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karime is most over-represented in Texas: since 1974 it was given 3.1 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 Karime 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,857 babies since 1880, Karime is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 210 babies (20%), again the second most given.
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 Karime
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 Karime and names like it
- Compare Karime and KarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarime peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karime since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Karime.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karime alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.