Kartik — #7334 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kartik

The Social Security Administration has registered 485 babies named Kartik between 1973 and 2024, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kartik currently holds the #7334 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 21 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kartik performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 169 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kartik shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kartik in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kartik 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 485 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.