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Karina vs Karizma

American parents have registered 61,717 Karinas since 1880, against 1,295 Karizmas. Karina is still ahead, with 363 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Karina against Karizma, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Karina Karizma

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Karina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Karina had 1,968 and Karizma had 121.

Side by side

  Karina Karizma
Total US births 61,7171,295
Most in one year 3,001121
Babies in 2025 36314
Estimated living today 61,0001,300
Median age today 2719
Peak year 19952001
Best rank 109th girls1,533rd girls
Rank in 2025 749th7,491st
First recorded 19561990
Girls / boys 61,464 / 2531,295 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Karinas alive today are over 27; half the Karizmas are over 19. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Karina and Karizma.