Meaning not yet researched.
Karim: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 198 in 2025. Its best rank was #707 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #707 in 2023; #1,084 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karim in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,084 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #707.
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Karim: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 198 boys in 2025. Peak: #707 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 376 (2023).
In 2025, 198 US boys were named Karim, making it the 1,084th most common boys’ name of the year, down 263 places from #821 in 2024. That is 107 fewer than the 305 boys named Karim in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #707, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 376. For comparison, it was #1,091 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karim in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 6 babies. In all, 6,944 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,776 babies named Karim.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,414 US boys were named Karim; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 376. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,627 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karim ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #733 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kareem (18,359 babies since 1880), Karime (2,581 babies since 1880), Karyme (2,152 babies since 1880) and Karam (1,631 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carime and Carim are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carime (137), Carim (12).
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 Karim in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 12 | #733 | #940 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #734 | #920 |
| Arizona | 7 | #816 | #841 |
| California | 27 | #871 | #775 |
| Michigan | 8 | #873 | #1,050 |
| Texas | 29 | #887 | #785 |
| New York | 15 | #898 | #1,196 |
| Florida | 16 | #900 | #1,004 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,159 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,378 | #795 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 198 | #1,084 |
| 2024 | — | — | 305 | #821 |
| 2023 | — | — | 376 | #707 |
| 2022 | — | — | 328 | #772 |
| 2021 | — | — | 194 | #1,089 |
| 2020 | — | — | 212 | #1,000 |
| 2019 | — | — | 192 | #1,063 |
| 2018 | — | — | 180 | #1,092 |
| 2017 | — | — | 193 | #1,044 |
| 2016 | — | — | 236 | #914 |
| 2015 | — | — | 179 | #1,091 |
| 2014 | — | — | 180 | #1,076 |
| 2013 | — | — | 162 | #1,121 |
| 2012 | — | — | 155 | #1,177 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,156 | 141 | #1,238 |
| 2010 | — | — | 153 | #1,181 |
| 2009 | — | — | 153 | #1,183 |
| 2008 | — | — | 131 | #1,328 |
| 2007 | — | — | 119 | #1,382 |
| 2006 | — | — | 131 | #1,280 |
| 2005 | — | — | 120 | #1,286 |
| 2004 | — | — | 131 | #1,186 |
| 2003 | — | — | 129 | #1,163 |
| 2002 | — | — | 122 | #1,163 |
| 2001 | — | — | 114 | #1,194 |
| 2000 | — | — | 92 | #1,377 |
| 1999 | — | — | 93 | #1,304 |
| 1998 | — | — | 98 | #1,241 |
| 1997 | — | — | 115 | #1,105 |
| 1996 | — | — | 80 | #1,351 |
| 1995 | — | — | 73 | #1,387 |
| 1994 | — | — | 68 | #1,428 |
| 1993 | — | — | 82 | #1,256 |
| 1992 | — | — | 73 | #1,326 |
| 1991 | — | — | 71 | #1,343 |
| 1990 | — | — | 78 | #1,258 |
| 1989 | — | — | 76 | #1,238 |
| 1988 | — | — | 72 | #1,196 |
| 1987 | — | — | 60 | #1,262 |
| 1986 | — | — | 49 | #1,425 |
| 1985 | — | — | 58 | #1,263 |
| 1984 | — | — | 66 | #1,119 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,024 | 62 | #1,150 |
| 1982 | — | — | 57 | #1,238 |
| 1981 | — | — | 70 | #1,089 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,115 | 76 | #1,041 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,922 | 76 | #1,021 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,028 | 96 | #879 |
| 1977 | — | — | 97 | #863 |
| 1976 | — | — | 93 | #870 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,727 | 74 | #957 |
| 1974 | — | — | 39 | #1,379 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,328 | 46 | #1,228 |
| 1972 | — | — | 46 | #1,222 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,427 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,045 | 23 | #1,875 |
| 1969 | — | — | 19 | #1,943 |
| 1968 | — | — | 13 | #2,392 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,691 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,929 |
| 1965 | — | — | 20 | #1,793 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,753 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,080 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,448 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,843 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #2,971 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,936 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,728 |
| 1957 | — | — | 6 | #3,772 |
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).