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Kerim

#4,475 in 2025Boys' name

To become noble, to become generous, through كَرِيم

Kerim has been given to 396 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #4,475 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Kerim, 2025

1 in 144,000

Kerim over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kerim: meaning, origin, and history

To become noble, to become generous, through كَرِيم

Arabic

What Kerim means

Kerim belongs to the name family reached through Kerim → كَرِيم. Its meaning is “to become noble, to become generous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kerim is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Kerim comes through Ottoman Turkish كریم and Arabic كَرِيم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include كَرِيم.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 396 boys were recorded with the name Kerim between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,091 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,455 in 2020 to #4,475 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,314 in 2015 to #4,475 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kerim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,475
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kerim 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kerim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kerim was born before 2016 — so the typical Kerim is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
396
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (161).

Is Kerim 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
+1,564
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,020
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,839
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.5%
Peak was 2016 (38)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,091
2016

Spellings of Kerim

Kerim is not the most common spelling — Kevin is, with 48.9% against Kerim's 0.02%.

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 Kerim is used

Across 1910–2025, Kerim was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,127,140 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 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. Kerim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kerim around the world

Where Kerim 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #1,743
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2000–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Kerim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,475
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,020
Best rank ever
#3,091
2016
Peak year
2016
38 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
396
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Kerim

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

KerinKeremKerbySarimKerriKervensKervinKeronKeriKerneyKerronKertKerwinKernKericKermittKerrieKerrickKerriganKershawKermanKerelHarimKerek

Sibling names for Kerim

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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