Karma — #1464 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Karma

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,470 babies named Karma between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karma currently holds the #1464 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 375 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karma performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,375 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Karma shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 473 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Karma in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karma 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 7,470 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.