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Carma

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~2,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#10,107 among girls
Births in 2025
9 4,169 since 1880
Typical age
60 years, median

Carma popularity over time

Carma rank by birth year, 1897–2025Carma ranked #1,555 in 1897 and #10,107 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #779, in 1935.#1,000#10,000#10,107best #779 in 19351920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1897–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Carma was used most in 1961, when 76 babies were given the name. 1897 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. It reaches the top 1,000 in 14 years of the record.

In 2025 it ranked #10,107 with 9 births. Over ten years the count has fallen 71%. Year on year the rank improved by 1015.

Babies named Carma per yearPeaks at 76 births in 1961.76 in 196101920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Carma?

Roughly 2,700 Carmas are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 4,169 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Carma?

Half of living Carmas are older than 60, half younger. Most living bearers were born in the 1950s. By the site’s era rules that makes Carma a late 20th-century name.

Your Carma

Ages of living people named CarmaHalf of living Carmas are older than 60 and half younger.median 60020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Notable people named Carma

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Carma Citrawati Wikimedian 1990 11
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Carma

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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