Karem
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karem has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1973. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% girls, 36% boys all-time.
Babies named Karem, 2010
1 in 528,000
Karem over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Karem over time
In 2016, Karem went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Karem?
Karem had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 528,000
- 7 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 254,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 365,976 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karem sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 365,976 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karems were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karem was born before 1995 — so the typical Karem is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 233
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (95).
Is Karem 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (16)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.0% average annual change
Spellings of Karem
Karem is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 59.5% against Karem's 0.01%.
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 Karem is used
Across 1910–2025, Karem was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 552,165 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Karem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Karem around the world
Where Karem 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.
- France1961–1961#1,425in 1961
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Karem by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Karem
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karem
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.