Karthik
Karthik is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201079 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1977
- 1,475people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,475 boys have been named Karthik in the United States since 1977, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2010, with 79 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 38%.
By decade
In 2010, its biggest year
Karthik was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2010 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Jayden and William. See all of 2010.
Names that rose and fell with Karthik
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaycobpeak 2012
- Corbenpeak 2007
- Keeganpeak 2007
- Dominikpeak 2012
- Keiranpeak 2011
- Tejaspeak 2013
- Chaysepeak 2009
- Eanpeak 2007
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.