Meaning not yet researched.
Karmen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 105 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,063 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,063 in 2008; #1,875 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karmen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,875 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,063.
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Karmen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 105 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,063 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 246 (2008).
In 2025, 105 US girls were named Karmen, making it the 1,875th most common girls’ name of the year, up 148 places from #2,023 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 97 girls named Karmen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,063, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 246. For comparison, it was #1,295 in 2015 and #2,971 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karmen in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 6 babies. In all, 7,287 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,976 babies named Karmen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,473 US girls were named Karmen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 215. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,307 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karmen ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #523 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carmen (159,756 babies since 1880), Carman (3,491 babies since 1880), Carmon (2,836 babies since 1880) and Karmyn (2,179 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karmynn and Karmann 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: Karmynn (68), Karmann (22).
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 Karmen 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 6 | #523 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #584 | #399 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #838 | #627 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #945 | #665 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,030 | #643 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,374 | #1,572 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,975 | #1,990 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 105 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,023 | 5 | #13,265 |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 2021 | 129 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 2020 | 168 | #1,313 | — | — |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 2018 | 184 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 2017 | 192 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 2016 | 215 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 2015 | 186 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 2014 | 199 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 2013 | 222 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2012 | 205 | #1,199 | — | — |
| 2011 | 226 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 2009 | 217 | #1,162 | 5 | #13,497 |
| 2008 | 246 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2007 | 150 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 2006 | 158 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 2005 | 168 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 2004 | 155 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1998 | 77 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,997 | 5 | #9,595 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 1992 | 83 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1981 | 71 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1980 | 88 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 1977 | 72 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1976 | 82 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1975 | 74 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1974 | 80 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1973 | 82 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1972 | 73 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1970 | 80 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1968 | 66 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1967 | 80 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1966 | 44 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1965 | 61 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1964 | 73 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1963 | 59 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,189 | — | — |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,264 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,043 | — | — |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,319 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,088 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,653 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,988 | — | — |
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).