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Karina vs Karman

American parents have registered 61,717 Karinas since 1880, against 663 Karmans. Karina is still ahead, with 363 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Karina Karman

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

Of the 71 years in which either name was published, Karina for 70 years and Karman for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Karina Karman
Total US births 61,717663
Most in one year 3,00121
Babies in 2025 3635
Estimated living today 61,000640
Median age today 2726
Peak year 19952014
Best rank 109th girls6,987th girls
Rank in 2025 749th14,942nd
First recorded 19561952
Girls / boys 61,464 / 253597 / 66

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Karina Karman
England and Wales 2,04869

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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