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Karthika

Girls' name

Feminine form of Kartik

Karthika has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2012, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Karthika, 2019

1 in 579,000

Karthika over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karthika: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Kartik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karthika means

Karthika is a feminine form of Kartik.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Karthika is used in Tamil and Malayalam.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Kartik.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 85 girls were recorded with the name Karthika between 2009 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2012; its best national rank was #9,394 in 2012.

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 Karthika?

Karthika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 280,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karthika 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karthika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karthikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karthika was born before 2013 — so the typical Karthika is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
92.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
85
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2010s — 92.9% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Karthika 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (12)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,394
2012

Spellings of Karthika

Karthika is not the most common spelling — Kathia is, with 56.1% against Karthika's 3.2%.

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 Karthika is used

Across 1910–2025, Karthika was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 887,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 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. Karthika has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karthika around the world

Where Karthika 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
    2015–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    1988–1988
    #3,373
    in 1988
  • South Australia
    1988–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

Karthika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,394
2012
Peak year
2012
12 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
85
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karthika

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

KartikaKarmaniKarelysKarielleKarolyneKarlissaKarnishaKarmoniSreenikaKareemahShanvikaKarstenKarielKarlettaKarilynnKaralyneDhanvikaKartierKarelynThanvikaKarletteKarliahKarmelaKarlotta

Sibling names for Karthika

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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