Girls' name · since 2005
Karmah
Karmah has 206 recorded births since 2005 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2008 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,526 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,103 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 206
- born since 2005
- 2010s
- peak decade
Karmah currently ranks #16103 among girls' names in America, with 206 babies recorded since 2005.
Karmah has 206 recorded births among girls since 2005, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16103 as of the latest data, more common than 7% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2005 to 2025.
- #19,526 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,103 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 206 born since 2005
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Karmah ranks #19,526 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,103 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 206 born since 2005, peaking in the 2010s.
- #19,526 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,103 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 206
- born since 2005
- 2010s
- peak decade
Karmah's 206 recorded births place it above 72.97% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Karmah compares
206 37th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Karmah's all-time total is 45% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Karmah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 206 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 21 | 21 | 19,840 |
Karmah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Karmah's SSA record in two at 2015 and the more recent half accounts for 39% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 61%, consistent with a name more common in the past than in recent years. Its calmest year was 2017, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2008 peak of 21, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Karmah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–2025
- Peak year (2008)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Karmah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (122 births, 59% of the file).
2010s was Karmah's strongest decade.
122 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 59% of all-time use.
Karmah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
55 births
- 2010s
2010s
122 births
- 2020s 29
2020s
29 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 122 births (59% of all-time use).
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- Karmah's decade-level peak was the 2010s (122 total births); usage has since declined to 29 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Karmah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2008)
Similar record span (~20 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2005–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Karmah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.