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Karishma

#9,769 in 2025Girls' name

Miracle

Karishma has been given to 1,064 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #9,769 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Karishma, 2025

1 in 332,000

Karishma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karishma: meaning, origin, and history

Miracle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karishma means

Karishma means “miracle”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,064 girls were recorded with the name Karishma between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,386 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,192 in 2020 to #9,769 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,797 in 2015 to #9,769 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 Karishma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,769
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karishma 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karishma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karishmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karishma was born before 2000 — so the typical Karishma is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,064
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (408).

Is Karishma 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
−1,586
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,577
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,972
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.5%
Peak was 1994 (54)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,386
1994

Spellings of Karishma

Karishma is not the most common spelling — Karissa is, with 46.5% against Karishma's 2.5%.

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 Karishma is used

Across 1910–2025, Karishma was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 193,964 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Karishma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karishma around the world

Where Karishma 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2011
    #7,039
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1992–2009
    #1,976
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1994–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Karishma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,769
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,577
Best rank ever
#2,386
1994
Peak year
1994
54 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,064
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Karishma

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

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Sibling names for Karishma

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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