Karna
Karna was last recorded in 2000, when 6 babies were given it; 529 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,460, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1970, the peak
Karna peaked in 1970, when 30 girls were given it, #2,473 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 5 | #11,460 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,173 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,121 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,442 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,044 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,658 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,741 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,237 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,483 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,701 | 11.7 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 20 | #3,219 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,206 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,473 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,855 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,687 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,398 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,097 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,325 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,629 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,690 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,073 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,249 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,308 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,038 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,296 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,981 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,032 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,501 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,451 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,400 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,728 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,867 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,133 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,497 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,940 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,695 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,823 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,833 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,885 | 5.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,365 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,753 | 9.1 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,283 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,080 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,031 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,898 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 529 Americans recorded as Karna, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karna, and how old are they?
An estimated 433 Americans named Karna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 53 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,047 people named Karna (656 women and girls, 391 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 461 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 86,457 babies since 1880, Karna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 539 babies recorded by SSA was a Karna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Karna
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 Karna and names like it
- Compare Karna and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarna peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karna since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Karna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Karna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.