Karriem
Karriem was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 517 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karriem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karriem?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,099, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1975, the peak
Karriem peaked in 1975, when 53 babies were given it (48 boys, #1,235 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #13,099 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,077 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,137 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,200 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,443 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,492 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,578 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,399 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,032 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,448 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #11,834 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,055 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,476 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,298 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,494 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,064 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,364 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,353 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,708 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,355 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,184 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,058 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,344 | 6.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,577 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,900 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,321 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,163 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,017 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,336 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,230 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,260 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,301 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,974 | 15.2 |
| 1976 | 31 | #1,692 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,235 | 30.7 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,487 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 33 | #1,492 | 21.2 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,488 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,257 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,171 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,766 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,508 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,769 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,546 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Karriem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karriem has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Karriem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karriem, and how old are they?
An estimated 478 Americans named Karriem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 31 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 374 people named Karriem (8 women and girls, 366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 480 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 25,979 babies since 1880, Karriem is the third most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 586 babies recorded by SSA was a Karriem (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 Karriem
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 Karriem and names like it
- Compare Karriem and KareemBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKarriem peaked in 1975.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karriem since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Karriem.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Karriem alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.