Karmin
#9,151 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karmin has been given to 990 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #9,151 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Karmin, 2025
1 in 301,000
Karmin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Karmin?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,151
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karmin sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karmin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karmins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karmin was born before 2005 — so the typical Karmin is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 30.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 990
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (299).
Is Karmin 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
- +82
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −488
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,965
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.31×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 26.2%
- Peak was 2013 (42)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.7% average annual change
Spellings of Karmin
Karmin is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 62.0% against Karmin's 0.06%.
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 Karmin is used
Across 1910–2025, Karmin was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,517,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Karmin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Karmin around the world
Where Karmin 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.
- Canada2012–2017#2,944in 2017
- South Australia1960–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Karmin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Karmin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karmin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.