Karisma
Karisma was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,034 among girls’ names; 2,148 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Karisma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karisma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karisma?
#5,034 among girls’ names, 2025
Karisma fell from #3,323 in 2015 to #5,034 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 27.4 to 16.2 per million.
86 babies in 2006, the peak
Karisma peaked in 2006, when 86 girls were given it, #2,237 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,034 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,823 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,739 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,676 | 25.6 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,577 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,426 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,358 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,028 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,664 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,494 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,323 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,123 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,855 | 34.2 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,694 | 37.5 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,495 | 41.5 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,527 | 41.1 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,630 | 38.1 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,706 | 36.0 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,631 | 36.4 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,237 | 45.2 |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,301 | 42.2 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,249 | 42.5 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,307 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,116 | 44.5 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,019 | 46.7 |
| 2000 | 68 | #2,290 | 37.4 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,026 | 43.4 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,255 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 60 | #2,271 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,462 | 18.8 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,528 | 28.4 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,720 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,610 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,936 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,258 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,837 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,298 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,630 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,026 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,585 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,227 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,582 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,144 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,640 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,114 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,603 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,029 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,172 | 5.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,801 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,592 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karisma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karisma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karisma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karisma, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,148 Americans ever recorded as Karisma. The median Karisma alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,589 people named Karisma (1,586 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,914 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 36 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 359 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 571 |
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 Karisma born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,189 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,552 | 1.3× |
Where Karisma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karisma is most over-represented in Texas: since 1970 it was given 1.3 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 Karisma 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,164 babies since 1880, Karisma is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 46 babies (57%), again the 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 Karisma
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 Karisma and names like it
- Compare Karisma and CarismaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarisma peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karisma since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Karisma.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karisma alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.