Karmen
#1,872 for girls in 2025, 105 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2008 · 246 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,272since 1935
Karmen over time
Rank among girls' names. Karmen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,872 | 105 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,011 | 97 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #2,050 | 95 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,710 | 122 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,622 | 129 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,308 | 168 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,357 | 166 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,255 | 184 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,240 | 192 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,171 | 215 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,293 | 186 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,228 | 199 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,101 | 222 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,199 | 205 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,086 | 226 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,299 | 181 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,159 | 217 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #1,062 | 246 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,530 | 150 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,428 | 158 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,314 | 168 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,357 | 155 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,590 | 121 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,968 | 89 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,560 | 119 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,122 | 76 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,073 | 74 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,958 | 77 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,423 | 54 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,476 | 51 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #1,952 | 72 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,854 | 77 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,761 | 83 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,933 | 72 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,644 | 90 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,564 | 90 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,802 | 69 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,991 | 56 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,691 | 69 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,760 | 64 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,633 | 67 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,156 | 45 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,684 | 67 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,632 | 71 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,408 | 88 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,569 | 73 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,690 | 62 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,514 | 72 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,316 | 82 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,415 | 74 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,323 | 80 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,266 | 82 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,364 | 73 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,221 | 92 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,320 | 80 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,338 | 72 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,375 | 66 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,187 | 80 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,700 | 44 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,407 | 61 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,311 | 73 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,449 | 59 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,607 | 49 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,580 | 51 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,747 | 42 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,117 | 28 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,103 | 27 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,482 | 10 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,706 | 24 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,272 | 14 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,963 | 9 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karmen! It came in at #3,742, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1935–1938, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Karmen is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#307 · 1 in 1,092
- South Carolina#467 · 1 in 1,973
- Alabama#512 · 1 in 2,131
- Georgia#514 · 1 in 2,356
- Louisiana#648 · 1 in 2,840
Best ever in a state: #270 in Mississippi, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #307 | 10 | 1 in 1,092 |
| South Carolina | #467 | 9 | 1 in 1,973 |
| Alabama | #512 | 9 | 1 in 2,131 |
| Georgia | #514 | 20 | 1 in 2,356 |
| Louisiana | #648 | 7 | 1 in 2,840 |
| Kentucky | #715 | 5 | 1 in 3,576 |
| Tennessee | #757 | 8 | 1 in 3,825 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,655 |
| North Carolina | #917 | 9 | 1 in 5,043 |
| Missouri | #940 | 5 | 1 in 5,194 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,022 | 8 | 1 in 6,393 |
| Ohio | #1,049 | 8 | 1 in 6,472 |
| Michigan | #1,143 | 6 | 1 in 6,878 |
| Virginia | #1,201 | 5 | 1 in 7,206 |
| Illinois | #1,250 | 7 | 1 in 7,935 |
| Florida | #1,489 | 8 | 1 in 10,745 |
| Texas | #1,666 | 13 | 1 in 12,298 |
| California | #3,267 | 5 | 1 in 39,150 |
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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 Karmen
- 139 spots since 2024 (#2,011 → #1,872)
- 564 spots since 2020 (#1,308 → #1,872)
- 579 spots since 2015 (#1,293 → #1,872)
- Debuted 1935
- Peaked 2008 at #1,062 (246 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,687 girls born in 2008 were named Karmen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,307 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 27.2% of all girls named Karmen (1,976) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 34 | #2,417 (1939) | #3,691 |
| 1940s | 113 | #1,706 (1942) | #3,092 |
| 1950s | 192 | #2,054 (1959) | #2,640 |
| 1960s | 597 | #1,187 (1967) | #1,470 |
| 1970s | 770 | #1,221 (1971) | #1,400 |
| 1980s | 686 | #1,408 (1980) | #1,732 |
| 1990s | 689 | #1,644 (1990) | #2,105 |
| 2000s | 1,499 | #1,062 (2008) | #1,509 |
| 2010s | 1,976 | #1,086 (2011) | #1,223 |
| 2020s | 716 | #1,308 (2020) | #1,762 |
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.
Karmen in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 8,992 of them was named Karmen, which outranked 93.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,236Carson193
- #1,236Lenora193
- #1,236Yasmine193
- #1,240Karmen192
- #1,240Carsyn192
- #1,240Guinevere192
- #1,240Sanaa192
- #1,244Cecily191
- #1,244Ivana191
- #1,244Izabelle191
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.