Carma
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 1935 · 75 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,169since 1897
Carma over time
Rank among girls' names. Carma has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 |
| 2014 | #4,455 | 32 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 |
| 2008 | #3,779 | 42 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 |
| 2005 | #3,461 | 43 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 |
| 1981 | #3,625 | 22 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 |
| 1979 | #3,442 | 23 |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 |
| 1975 | #2,232 | 37 |
| 1974 | #2,133 | 38 |
| 1973 | #1,939 | 42 |
| 1972 | #1,786 | 48 |
| 1971 | #1,805 | 49 |
| 1970 | #1,719 | 53 |
| 1969 | #2,023 | 38 |
| 1968 | #1,678 | 48 |
| 1967 | #1,524 | 54 |
| 1966 | #1,715 | 43 |
| 1965 | #1,575 | 50 |
| 1964 | #1,666 | 48 |
| 1963 | #1,478 | 57 |
| 1962 | #1,456 | 58 |
| 1961 | #1,268 | 76 |
| 1960 | #1,280 | 74 |
| 1959 | #1,230 | 75 |
| 1958 | #1,294 | 67 |
| 1957 | #1,458 | 53 |
| 1956 | #1,287 | 65 |
| 1955 | #1,334 | 57 |
| 1954 | #1,186 | 71 |
| 1953 | #1,358 | 51 |
| 1952 | #1,368 | 50 |
| 1951 | #1,098 | 72 |
| 1950 | #1,171 | 62 |
| 1949 | #1,251 | 53 |
| 1948 | #1,157 | 60 |
| 1947 | #1,068 | 69 |
| 1946 | #1,131 | 56 |
| 1945 | #1,187 | 44 |
| 1944 | #1,140 | 47 |
| 1943 | #1,124 | 51 |
| 1942 | #954 | 67 |
| 1941 | #970 | 57 |
| 1940 | #906 | 63 |
| 1939 | #903 | 60 |
| 1938 | #923 | 59 |
| 1937 | #920 | 56 |
| 1936 | #815 | 68 |
| 1935 | #779 | 75 |
| 1934 | #787 | 73 |
| 1933 | #904 | 56 |
| 1932 | #913 | 59 |
| 1931 | #1,010 | 48 |
| 1930 | #956 | 58 |
| 1929 | #968 | 55 |
| 1928 | #954 | 61 |
| 1927 | #1,057 | 53 |
| 1926 | #1,045 | 51 |
| 1925 | #1,160 | 44 |
| 1924 | #1,612 | 28 |
| 1923 | #1,637 | 26 |
| 1922 | #1,089 | 49 |
| 1921 | #1,476 | 31 |
| 1920 | #1,666 | 25 |
| 1919 | #1,565 | 26 |
| 1918 | #1,963 | 19 |
| 1917 | #1,431 | 27 |
| 1916 | #1,581 | 23 |
| 1915 | #1,439 | 25 |
| 1914 | #1,303 | 23 |
| 1913 | #1,670 | 13 |
| 1912 | #1,844 | 10 |
| 1911 | #1,956 | 7 |
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 |
| 1909 | #1,471 | 9 |
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 |
| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | #1,951 | 5 |
| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 |
| 1904 | — | |
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| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,555 | 5 |
| 1896 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Carma! It came in at #1,555, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1897–1904, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Carma is popular in 1971
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,372 · 1 in 18,550
Best ever in a state: #50 in Utah, 1929.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,372 | 8 | 1 in 18,550 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Carma
- 1,015 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #10,107)
- 4,440 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #10,107)
- 5,619 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #10,107)
- Biggest jump: 117 spots in 1934 (#904 → #787)
- Biggest drop: 170 spots in 1943 (#954 → #1,124)
- Debuted 1897
- Peaked 1935 at #779 (75 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 40 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1932–1942
- Highest: 1 in 13,981 girls born in 1935 were named Carma (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 14.9% of all girls named Carma (623) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,555 (1897) | #1,555 |
| 1900s | 31 | #1,471 (1909) | #1,808 |
| 1910s | 178 | #1,303 (1914) | #1,715 |
| 1920s | 423 | #954 (1928) | #1,266 |
| 1930s | 612 | #779 (1935) | #891 |
| 1940s | 567 | #906 (1940) | #1,089 |
| 1950s | 623 | #1,098 (1951) | #1,278 |
| 1960s | 546 | #1,268 (1961) | #1,566 |
| 1970s | 353 | #1,719 (1970) | #2,557 |
| 1980s | 157 | #3,242 (1983) | #5,304 |
| 1990s | 75 | #6,719 (1998) | #8,328 |
| 2000s | 255 | #3,461 (2005) | #6,842 |
| 2010s | 275 | #4,023 (2010) | #5,190 |
| 2020s | 69 | #5,667 (2020) | #9,344 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Carma in 1971
Top girls' names in 1971
More about 1971
girls
1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 33,956 of them was named Carma, which outranked 81.3% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,772Vida50
- #1,772Yalonda50
- #1,772Zulma50
- #1,805Carma49
- #1,805Bobbiejo49
- #1,805Bobbijo49
- #1,805Chaya49
- #1,828Bernita48
- #1,828Bronwyn48
- #1,828Coreen48
Tied with 22 names at #1,805; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.