Karma
Karma is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 149 births. Its best rank was 761st, in 2009.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1490.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2009375 births
- Best rank
- #761in 2009
- Since 1915
- 7,724people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,470 girls have been named Karma in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 375 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 254 boys have also been given it, 3.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Karma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | |
| 1920s | 113 | |
| 1930s | 185 | |
| 1940s | 232 | |
| 1950s | 344 | |
| 1960s | 336 | |
| 1970s | 578 | |
| 1980s | 220 | |
| 1990s | 186 | |
| 2000s | 1,984 | |
| 2010s | 2,375 | |
| 2020s | 894 |
In 2009, its biggest year
Karma was the 761st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Karma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Neelapeak 2007
- Naimapeak 2007
- Avrilpeak 2008
- Melanypeak 2007
- Sayuripeak 2007
- Irelynpeak 2008
- Azulpeak 2008
- Samayapeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.