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Karima

#7,671 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Karim

Karima has been given to 1,474 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #7,671 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1979, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Karima, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karima: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Karim

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karima means

Karima is a feminine form of Karim.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Karima → Karim. The family’s meaning is “noble, generous”, recorded in English with the source elements karīm.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karim.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,474 girls were recorded with the name Karima between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,647 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,482 in 2020 to #7,671 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,795 in 2015 to #7,671 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Karima?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,671
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karima 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karima. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karimas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karima was born before 1990 — so the typical Karima is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,474
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (389).

Is Karima 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
+2,215
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,189
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,124
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.2%
Peak was 1979 (63)
Years since peak
46
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,647
1976

Spellings of Karima

Karima is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 36.8% against Karima'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 Karima is used

Across 1910–2025, Karima was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 94,954 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 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. Karima has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karima around the world

Where Karima 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
    1996–2023
    #2,689
    in 2023
  • France
    1952–2025
    #1,617
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1971–2002
    #730
    in 2002

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

Karima by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,671
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,189
Best rank ever
#1,647
1976
Peak year
1979
63 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,474
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Karima

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

KarsenKarineKarsonKarymeKarmynKarminKarlynKarynaKarimeKarelyKareenaKaralynKarenaKarizmaKarmanKariahKareliKarismaKarterKareenKareemaJemimaKarmenKarren

Sibling names for Karima

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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