Karmyn
Karmyn was given to 51 girls in 2025, #3,149 among girls’ names; 2,179 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Karmyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karmyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karmyn?
#3,149 among girls’ names, 2025
Karmyn fell from #1,735 in 2015 to #3,149 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.8 to 31.7 per million.
121 babies in 2015, the peak
Karmyn peaked in 2015, when 121 girls were given it, #1,735 among girls’ names. The 51 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,149 | 31.7 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,808 | 37.0 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,240 | 52.4 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,264 | 50.6 |
| 2021 | 95 | #2,038 | 57.9 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,014 | 57.5 |
| 2019 | 94 | #2,040 | 56.0 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,755 | 68.8 |
| 2017 | 94 | #2,080 | 54.4 |
| 2016 | 94 | #2,088 | 53.0 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,735 | 67.8 |
| 2014 | 108 | #1,870 | 60.5 |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,769 | 66.1 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,770 | 66.4 |
| 2011 | 89 | #2,151 | 50.6 |
| 2010 | 102 | #1,970 | 57.4 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,176 | 50.1 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,305 | 45.0 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,191 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,201 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,230 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 39 | #3,709 | 21.2 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,351 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,991 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,058 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,807 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,837 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,239 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,482 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,154 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,494 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,854 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,088 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,832 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,184 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,736 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,149 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,718 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,027 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,743 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,585 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,921 | 3.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,900 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,169 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,515 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karmyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karmyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karmyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karmyn, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,179 Americans ever recorded as Karmyn. The median Karmyn alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,456 people named Karmyn (1,448 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,722 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 837 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,200 |
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 Karmyn born?
The states with the most babies named Karmyn are Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana and Kentucky are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 5 | #839 | 4.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,554 | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #798 | 0.4× |
Where Karmyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karmyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1968 it was given 4.1 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 Karmyn 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 178,597 babies since 1880, Karmyn is the fifth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 51 of their 1,115 babies (4.6%), the third 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 Karmyn
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 Karmyn and names like it
- Compare Karmyn and CarmenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKarmyn peaked in 2015.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karmyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Karmyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karmyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.