Meaning not yet researched.
Carma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #780 in 1935.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #780 in 1935; #10,257 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carma in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,257 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1935, at #780.
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Carma: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #780 in 1935 · most girls in one year: 76 (1961).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Carma, making it the 10,257th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,070 places from #11,327 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Carma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #780, reached in 1935. The most girls given the name in a single year was 76, in 1961. For comparison, it was #4,514 in 2015 and #1,172 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carma in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 5 babies. In all, 4,169 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 623 babies named Carma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 143 US girls were named Carma; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karma (7,863 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carma in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,257 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,327 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,722 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,556 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,325 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,702 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,778 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,647 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,093 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,670 | — | — |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,514 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,481 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,086 | — | — |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,708 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,032 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,792 | — | — |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,466 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,506 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,666 | — | — |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,118 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,875 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,021 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,316 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,775 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,216 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,187 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,995 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,727 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,931 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,031 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,201 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,911 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,813 | — | — |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,724 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,189 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,637 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,282 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,184 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,807 | — | — |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,030 | — | — |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,681 | — | — |
| 1967 | 54 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1964 | 48 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1963 | 57 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1962 | 58 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1961 | 76 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1960 | 74 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1958 | 67 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1956 | 65 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1954 | 71 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1951 | 72 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1950 | 62 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1949 | 53 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1947 | 69 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1946 | 56 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1944 | 47 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1943 | 51 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1942 | 67 | #954 | — | — |
| 1941 | 57 | #970 | — | — |
| 1940 | 63 | #906 | — | — |
| 1939 | 60 | #906 | — | — |
| 1938 | 59 | #924 | — | — |
| 1937 | 56 | #920 | — | — |
| 1936 | 68 | #816 | — | — |
| 1935 | 75 | #780 | — | — |
| 1934 | 73 | #789 | — | — |
| 1933 | 56 | #905 | — | — |
| 1932 | 59 | #913 | — | — |
| 1931 | 48 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1930 | 58 | #960 | — | — |
| 1929 | 55 | #968 | — | — |
| 1928 | 61 | #957 | — | — |
| 1927 | 53 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1926 | 51 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1925 | 44 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1923 | 26 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1914 | 23 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,583 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).