Meaning not yet researched.
Karma: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 120 in 2025. Its best rank was #761 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #761 in 2009; #1,706 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Karma in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,706 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #761.
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Karma: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 120 girls in 2025. Peak: #761 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 375 (2009).
In 2025, 120 US girls were named Karma, making it the 1,706th most common girls’ name of the year, down 247 places from #1,459 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 150 girls named Karma in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #761, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 375. For comparison, it was #1,179 in 2015 and #1,855 in 1950.
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Karma, making it the 5,999th most common boys’ name of the year, up 37 places from #6,036 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 15 boys named Karma in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,369, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 24. For comparison, it was #7,772 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karma in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 7,863 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,494 babies named Karma.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,815 US girls were named Karma; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 210. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,394 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karma ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #851 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carma (4,169 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karmah and Carmah 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: Karmah (206), Carmah (14).
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 Karma in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 5 | #851 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #891 | #1,320 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,082 | #640 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,139 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,140 | #1,033 |
| New York | 11 | #1,274 | #1,173 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,663 | #853 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,778 | #1,419 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,974 | #1,870 |
| California | 6 | #2,932 | #2,104 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 120 | #1,706 | 15 | #5,999 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,459 | 15 | #6,036 |
| 2023 | 199 | #1,203 | 21 | #4,810 |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,331 | 24 | #4,369 |
| 2021 | 174 | #1,301 | 10 | #7,864 |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,184 | 17 | #5,359 |
| 2019 | 194 | #1,205 | 15 | #5,962 |
| 2018 | 191 | #1,225 | 20 | #4,844 |
| 2017 | 210 | #1,176 | 10 | #7,870 |
| 2016 | 204 | #1,210 | 13 | #6,532 |
| 2015 | 214 | #1,179 | 10 | #7,772 |
| 2014 | 254 | #1,028 | 9 | #8,473 |
| 2013 | 263 | #960 | 7 | #10,202 |
| 2012 | 291 | #901 | 14 | #6,155 |
| 2011 | 258 | #988 | 9 | #8,439 |
| 2010 | 297 | #893 | 11 | #7,333 |
| 2009 | 375 | #761 | 11 | #7,467 |
| 2008 | 333 | #845 | 12 | #6,973 |
| 2007 | 325 | #862 | 6 | #11,670 |
| 2006 | 313 | #855 | 9 | #8,393 |
| 2005 | 298 | #850 | — | — |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,978 | 7 | #9,453 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,564 | 5 | #11,601 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,212 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,474 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,275 | — | — |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,434 | — | — |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,094 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,147 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,675 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,672 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,740 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,750 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,303 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,954 | — | — |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,274 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,241 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,922 | — | — |
| 1974 | 71 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1973 | 78 | #1,308 | — | — |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1971 | 77 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1970 | 66 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1962 | 42 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1959 | 47 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,849 | — | — |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 1953 | 37 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,721 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1946 | 33 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,216 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,846 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,013 | — | — |
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).