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Karm

#12,965 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Hindi origin

Karm has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #12,965 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Karm, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karm: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Hindi origin

Hindi

What Karm means

Karm is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Karm is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 33 boys were recorded with the name Karm between 2013 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2018; its best national rank was #10,199 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,077 in 2020 to #12,965 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 Karm?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,965
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karm 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karm. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karms were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karm was born before 2018 — so the typical Karm is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
33
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Karm 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
+112
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2018 (7)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,199
2018

Spellings of Karm

Karm is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 34.0% against Karm'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.

Karm around the world

Where Karm 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
    2022–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2012–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Karm by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,965
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 112
Best rank ever
#10,199
2018
Peak year
2018
7 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
33
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Karm

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

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Sibling names for Karm

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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