Karym
#12,968 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karym has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #12,968 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Karym, 2025
1 in 663,000
Karym 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Karym?
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
- #12,968
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karym 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karym. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karyms were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karym was born before 2011 — so the typical Karym is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 26
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (14).
Is Karym 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +93
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 55.6%
- Peak was 2011 (9)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Karym
Karym is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 75.1% against Karym'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.
Karym around the world
Where Karym 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.
- France1974–2018#5,008in 2018
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Karym by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Karym
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karym
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.