Meaning not yet researched.
Karthik: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,847 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,847 in 2010; #4,949 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karthik in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,949 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,847.
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Karthik: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,847 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 79 (2010).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Karthik, making it the 4,949th most common boys’ name of the year, up 390 places from #5,339 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 18 boys named Karthik in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,847, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #2,335 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karthik in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 1,495 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 561 babies named Karthik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 308 US boys were named Karthik; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kartik are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kartik (495).
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 Karthik 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 | — | — | 20 | #4,949 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,339 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,811 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,143 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,857 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,455 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,226 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,136 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,922 |
| 2016 | — | — | 57 | #2,318 |
| 2015 | — | — | 56 | #2,335 |
| 2014 | — | — | 63 | #2,167 |
| 2013 | — | — | 64 | #2,101 |
| 2012 | — | — | 69 | #2,024 |
| 2011 | — | — | 59 | #2,220 |
| 2010 | — | — | 79 | #1,847 |
| 2009 | — | — | 56 | #2,334 |
| 2008 | — | — | 57 | #2,304 |
| 2007 | — | — | 62 | #2,176 |
| 2006 | — | — | 57 | #2,235 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,545 |
| 2004 | — | — | 41 | #2,620 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,376 |
| 2002 | — | — | 52 | #2,079 |
| 2001 | — | — | 45 | #2,262 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,359 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,378 |
| 1998 | — | — | 38 | #2,333 |
| 1997 | — | — | 30 | #2,648 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,161 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,769 |
| 1994 | — | — | 24 | #2,991 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,923 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,226 |
| 1991 | — | — | 12 | #4,628 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,601 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #5,006 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,051 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,101 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,650 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,932 |
| 1984 | — | — | 9 | #4,388 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,020 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,745 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,343 |
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).