Karman
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Last seen for boys in 2021 at #12,146
- Given to girls 90.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 16 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 597since 1952
Karman over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | — | #12,146 | 5 | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #9,756 | 7 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | — | |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | — | |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 | — | |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | — | |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | — | |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | — | |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | — | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | — | |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
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| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | — | |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | — | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,315 | 16 | — | |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | — | |
| 1964 | #5,008 | 8 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,851 | 6 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
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| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1952
The first year at least five girls were named Karman! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Karman is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Karman in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Karman
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 3,852 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #14,942)
- 6,934 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
16 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1968 at #3,315 (16 births)
- Births halved by 1970, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 95,822
- Highest: 1 in 95,822 girls born in 1977 were named Karman (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,315 in 1968, was only 1 in 102,524 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 21.1% of all girls named Karman (126) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2022
- Mostly boys until 2021, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 11 | #5,408 (1958) | #5,486 |
| 1960s | 98 | #3,315 (1968) | #4,588 |
| 1970s | 107 | #4,155 (1973) | #5,470 |
| 1980s | 69 | #6,319 (1980) | #8,263 |
| 1990s | 56 | #6,976 (1991) | #10,269 |
| 2000s | 103 | #7,998 (2003) | #10,296 |
| 2010s | 126 | #6,987 (2014) | #8,777 |
| 2020s | 27 | #11,090 (2020) | #12,681 |
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.
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