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Karam

#1,613 in 2025Boys' name

Nobility, generosity

Karam has been given to 1,631 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,613 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Karam, 2025

1 in 31,600

Karam over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karam: meaning, origin, and history

Nobility, generosity

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karam means

Karam means “nobility, generosity”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,631 boys were recorded with the name Karam between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 137 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,375 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,691 in 2020 to #1,613 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,881 in 2015 to #1,613 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 Karam?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,600
105 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,613
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,886 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,886 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karam was born before 2017 — so the typical Karam is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,631
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.9% of all recorded uses (699).

Is Karam 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
−238
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+78
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+268
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.6%
Peak was 2024 (137)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,375
2024

Spellings of Karam

Karam is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 70.7% against Karam's 0.20%.

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 Karam is used

Across 2016–2025, Karam was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 14,037 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 5,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 5,556
  3. 3Ohio1 in 12,500
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Florida1 in 16,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7Virginia1 in 16,667
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Karam around the world

Where Karam 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
    1996–2025
    #668
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    1983–2025
    #884
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Karam by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,613
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 78
Best rank ever
#1,375
2024
Peak year
2024
137 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,631
Count in 2025
105

Names similar to Karam

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

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Sibling names for Karam

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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