girls:
58 births since 1970
#5658 (1st percentile)
boys:
6.4k births since 1957
#1475 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.4k births since 1957
#3372 (56th percentile)
The name Karim is the #3,372 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,438 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 56.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,475 (67.8% percentile) for all time with 6,380 births since 1957. For girls, it ranks #5,658 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1970.
Karim first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for boys and 1970 for girls).
The name Karim has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Karim reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 37.8% percentile (ranked #567) with 205 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 205 births per million (ranked 37.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Karim is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #567 (37.8% percentile) with 205 births per million.
For girls, Karim reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #780) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karim".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Karim. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.3% confident that Karim is pronounced as kah-REEM, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-REEM, at 27.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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