Karyme
Karyme was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,436 among girls’ names; 2,152 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,130 Americans named Karyme and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 16 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karyme by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karyme?
#6,436 among girls’ names, 2025
Karyme fell from #4,543 in 2015 to #6,436 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 11.2 per million.
251 babies in 2003, the peak
Karyme peaked in 2003, when 251 girls were given it, #939 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,436 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,703 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,054 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,568 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,471 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,216 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,367 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,892 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,932 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,038 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,543 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,514 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,534 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 61 | #2,846 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,780 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 100 | #2,002 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,861 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 188 | #1,318 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 148 | #1,492 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 129 | #1,583 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 206 | #1,108 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 251 | #939 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,478 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,808 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 152 | #1,275 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,210 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,587 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karyme a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karyme has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karyme: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karyme, and how old are they?
2,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,152 Americans ever recorded as Karyme. The median Karyme alive today is 20 years old; half are between 16 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,494 people named Karyme (1,486 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,004 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 361 |
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 Karyme born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,520 | 3.7× |
Where Karyme is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karyme is most over-represented in Texas: since 1996 it was given 3.7 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 Karyme 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 14,269 babies since 1880, Karyme is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 210 babies (8.6%), again the third most given.
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 Karyme
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 Karyme and names like it
- Compare Karyme and KarmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaryme peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karyme since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Karyme.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karyme alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.