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Kerem

#3,707 in 2025Boys' name

Nobleness, kindness

Kerem has been given to 665 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #3,707 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Kerem, 2025

1 in 111,000

Kerem over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kerem: meaning, origin, and history

Nobleness, kindness

Arabic

What Kerem means

Kerem means “nobleness, kindness”, associated with karam.

Origin, language, and formation

Kerem is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Kerem comes through Ottoman Turkish كرم and Arabic كَرَم.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 658 boys were recorded with the name Kerem between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,036 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,344 in 2020 to #3,707 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,641 in 2015 to #3,707 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Kerem between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #12,825 in 2020.

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 Kerem?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,707
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kerem 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerem was born before 2015 — so the typical Kerem is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
658
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.7% of all recorded uses (301).

Is Kerem 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
−573
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+637
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−66
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2016 (39)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,036
2016

Spellings of Kerem

Kerem is not the most common spelling — Jeremy is, with 53.0% against Kerem's 0.08%.

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 Kerem is used

Across 1910–2025, Kerem was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 336,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Kerem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kerem around the world

Where Kerem 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
    1996–2025
    #1,276
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #687
    in 2013
  • France
    1980–2025
    #768
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Kerem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,707
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 637
Best rank ever
#3,036
2016
Peak year
2016
39 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
658
Count in 2025
30

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,825
2020
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kerem

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

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Sibling names for Kerem

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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