Karmin
Karmin was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,151 among girls’ names; 990 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karmin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karmin?
#9,151 among girls’ names, 2025
Karmin fell from #4,186 in 2015 to #9,151 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 6.8 per million.
42 babies in 2013, the peak
Karmin peaked in 2013, when 42 girls were given it, #3,669 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,151 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,233 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,821 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,271 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,821 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,663 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,872 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,379 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,406 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,891 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,186 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,054 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,669 | 23.9 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,430 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,621 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,168 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,624 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,950 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,799 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,517 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,669 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,845 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,383 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,871 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,788 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,507 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,878 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,219 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,055 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,829 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,773 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,853 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,135 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,831 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,401 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,055 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,197 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,850 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,164 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,933 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,742 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,838 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,419 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,702 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,551 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,087 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,226 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,468 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,519 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,740 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,236 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,315 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,679 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,399 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,735 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,047 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,854 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,512 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,774 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,136 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,030 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,213 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,689 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,125 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karmin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karmin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karmin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karmin, and how old are they?
An estimated 963 Americans named Karmin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 852 people named Karmin (822 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 898 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 178,597 babies since 1880, Karmin is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,115 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Karmin
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.
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