Kharisma
Kharisma was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,019 among girls’ names; 482 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kharisma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kharisma?
#6,019 among girls’ names, 2025
Kharisma rose from #11,406 in 2015 to #6,019 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 12.4 per million.
24 babies in 2008, the peak
Kharisma peaked in 2008, when 24 girls were given it, #5,858 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,019 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,051 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,096 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,582 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,661 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,495 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,084 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,979 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,084 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,798 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #11,406 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,867 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,929 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,418 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,911 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,362 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,998 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,858 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,912 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,266 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,542 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,943 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,879 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,677 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,534 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,804 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,059 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,940 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,053 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,659 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,134 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,156 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,837 | 7.2 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,850 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,152 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kharisma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kharisma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kharisma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kharisma, and how old are they?
An estimated 477 Americans named Kharisma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 313 people named Kharisma (310 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 369 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Kharisma?
Kharisma is a less common spelling of Karisma: SSA has recorded 482 Kharisma and 2,148 Karisma since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,164 babies since 1880, Kharisma is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 46 babies (43%), the second 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 Kharisma
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 Kharisma and names like it
- Compare Kharisma and KarismaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKharisma peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kharisma since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Kharisma.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kharisma alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.