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Carma

#10,253 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Carma has been given to 4,169 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #10,253 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Carma, 2025

1 in 368,000

Carma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carma: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carma means

Carma is a given name.

The naming story behind Carma

Wikidata records Carma as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q131313030, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,169 girls were recorded with the name Carma between 1897 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 1961; its best national rank was #780 in 1935.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,698 in 2020 to #10,253 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,513 in 2015 to #10,253 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Carma?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,253
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carma was born before 1954 — so the typical Carma is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
14.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,353
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Choose a decade

1950s — 14.9% of all recorded uses (623).

Is Carma rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,069
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,555
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,740
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.8%
Peak was 1961 (76)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#780
1935

Spellings of Carma

Carma is not the most common spelling — Carol is, with 18.9% against Carma's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carma is used

Across 1910–2025, Carma was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,381 girls, against 1 in 61,252 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

042 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,381
  2. 2Idaho1 in 3,846
  3. 3Iowa1 in 33,333
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carma around the world

Where Carma ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • France
    1970–1976
    #2,810
    in 1976
  • South Australia
    1948–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Carma

People whose public names include Carma, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,253
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,555
Best rank ever
#780
1935
Peak year
1961
76 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,169
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Carma

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

CarysCarliCarlynCarsynCarisCarmelCarieCarinCarsonCarriCarlinCaronCarahCarterCarylKarmaCariCarleeCarrolCarolaCarlotaCarlieCarsenCaren

Names with a curve like Carma

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carma, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Carma

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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