Karman — unisex name

What the Data Says About Karman

The Social Security Administration has registered 592 babies named Karman between 1952 and 2023, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karman currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Karman is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 66 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karman performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Karman shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Karman in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karman 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 592 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.