Karimah
Feminine · “Generous”
Karimah is the Arabic feminine of Karim, 'generous, noble', written with a final h. Its masculine form belongs to basketball's great center and to a prince chosen as the Aga Khan while still a student.
How old is the name Karimah?
Karimah first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Karimah alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 600 people named Karimah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Karimah most popular?
Karimah peaked in 1975, reaching #3514 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From karim to Karimah
The story of Karimah
Lew Alcindor, who led UCLA to three national titles, became a Muslim and took the name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 'generous servant of the Almighty'; he became the NBA's all-time leading scorer. Prince Karim was a student at Harvard when his grandfather's will named him the Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili Muslims, passing over his father. Karimah is the feminine of their name, given by Muslim families in America and around the world.
Meaning
'Generous, noble', the feminine of Karim
Karimah is the feminine of Arabic Karim, 'generous, noble'.
How the name formed
- karim
- Karimah
Related forms: Karima · Karim
Pronouncing Karimah
kuh-REE-muh
Three syllables with the stress on the second.
Nicknames for Karimah
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 199227 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3514reached in 1975
- Change vs 2021
- +20.0%6 in 2022, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Karimah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Karima in Arabic — same name
- Karim in Arabic — related form
Karimahs among us
people named Karimah are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Karimah sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- A settled, generous meaning.
- Easy to say once heard.
- Rare, so a Karimah is unlikely to share her name.
- People will write Karima.
- Some will stress the first syllable.
- It will need spelling out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Karimahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Karimah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Karimah in 2025?
- Karimah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Karimah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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