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Karthik

#4,948 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Kartik

Karthik has been given to 1,495 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,948 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 79 recorded.

Babies named Karthik, 2025

1 in 166,000

Karthik over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karthik: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Kartik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karthik means

Karthik is a form of Kartik.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kartik.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,495 boys were recorded with the name Karthik between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 79 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,846 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,453 in 2020 to #4,948 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,334 in 2015 to #4,948 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 Karthik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,948
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karthik 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karthik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karthiks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karthik was born before 2009 — so the typical Karthik is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,495
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Choose a decade

2010s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (561).

Is Karthik 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
+387
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,495
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,614
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.3%
Peak was 2010 (79)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,846
2010

Where Karthik is used

Across 1910–2025, Karthik was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 183,715 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Karthik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karthik around the world

Where Karthik 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
    2002–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #5,778
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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.

Karthik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,948
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,495
Best rank ever
#1,846
2010
Peak year
2010
79 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,495
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Karthik

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

KarmeloKartierKarstenKarlosKarltonKarsynKarmelloKaranKaramKarsenKarloKartikKarverKarlinKarstonKaronKarderKarriemKarasKarelKarsinKareenKariKrithik

Sibling names for Karthik

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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