girls:
592 births since 1952
#5124 (10th percentile)
boys:
66 births since 1975
#4520 (1st percentile)
overall:
658 births since 1952
#7081 (8th percentile)
The name Karman is the #7,081 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 658 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 8.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,124 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 592 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #4,520 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 66 births since 1975.
Karman first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Karman is available in 62 out of the 72 years between 1952 and 2023 (61 years for girls and 10 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Karman has been given predominantly to girls, with 90.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Karman were girls.
For girls, Karman reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #736) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Karman ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 35.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Karman reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #916) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karman".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Karman. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Karman is pronounced as KAHR-muhn, which has 2 syllables.
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