Karime
Feminine · “generous”
Karime is the Spanish-language spelling of Karima, an Arabic word for generosity — the openhandedness that Arabic treats as the central virtue of a good character.
How old is the name Karime?
Karime first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Karime alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 2,600 people named Karime are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Karime most popular?
Karime peaked in 2004, reaching #1062 nationally. Today it ranks #3517, 2,455 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From karima to Karime
The story of Karime
Karim and Karima have been used across the Arab world since the earliest Islamic period. Lebanese and Syrian emigration to Mexico and Latin America in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought a set of Arabic names into Spanish naming, and Karime is one of the results — the Spanish spelling of Karima, thoroughly at home in Mexico now. It reaches American records with Mexican families as often as with Arab ones.
Meaning
generous, noble
From Arabic karim, generous or noble, the feminine karima; al-Karim, the Generous, is one of the divine names, and the root ties nobility to giving rather than to birth.
How the name formed
- karima
- Karime
Related forms: Karima · Kerime · Karimeh
Pronouncing Karime
kah-REE-meh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Every letter is sounded in Spanish.
Nicknames for Karime
Moderate
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
- 1974
- Most girls named
- 2004218 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1062reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- +34.4%43 in 2025, from 32
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.
Karime in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Karima in Arabic — same name
- Kerime in Turkish — same name
- Karimeh in Persian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Karimes among us
people named Karime are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 37,378 born in 2025 was named Karime
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Karime
- #3517
- Karime on the 2025 chart
- #899
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Karime went to 43 girls in 2025, but Karyme is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 61, which makes it the 899th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,618 places above the chart.
- Karime43
- Karyme18
About 1 girl in 26,349 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 37,378 for Karime itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ileen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Karime's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ileen climbed just as high around 1925, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ileen's path sketches the road Karime is walking now.
Karime sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Karime is headed
Karime is easing off slowly — about 21% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Karime beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Karime in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that ties nobility to generosity, which is an attractive idea.
- Kari is a ready short form that is a complete name elsewhere.
- Every letter is said, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at first sight.
- The final e is sounded in Spanish and silent to English readers, which changes the name.
- Karima and Karime are the same name and different branches may prefer different spellings.
- It is close to Karina and Carmen in an American ear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Karimes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,600 people named Karime are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Karime?
- Karime is the most-used spelling in US records — 43 of the 61 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Karyme.
- How popular is the name Karime in 2025?
- Karime ranks #3517 among US girl names in 2025, with 43 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Karime?
- About 1 in every 37,378 US girls born in 2025 was named Karime — 43 in all.
- Will my child share the name Karime with classmates?
- Karime will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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