Karyme
Feminine · “generous”
Karyme's American curve has a single sharp peak in 2003, and that shape almost always means one person. In this case it is Karyme Lozano, the Mexican actress whose telenovelas were being watched in millions of United States households in exactly those years.
How old is the name Karyme?
Karyme first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Karyme alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 2,100 people named Karyme are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Karyme most popular?
Karyme peaked in 2003, reaching #939 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 5,386 places below that high. See the whole 2003 chart.
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Where it comes from
From karim to Karyme
The story of Karyme
Arabic names entered Mexican Spanish through Lebanese and Syrian migration from the 1880s onward, which is why Mexico has a substantial stock of given names and surnames like Karim, Nadia, Yamile, Jamileth and Karime that have no Spanish etymology at all. The Y-and-final-E spelling is the Mexican adaptation, distinguishing the name from the Arabic-standard Karima. Its arrival in United States records is late and concentrated: a scattering in the 1990s, a spike in the early 2000s, and a fall almost as steep. The best year on file is 2003, and the shape of the curve, rather than any claim about intent, is what marks it as media-driven.
Meaning
generous, noble
The underlying word is Arabic karima, the feminine of karim, from the root k-r-m, which covers generosity, nobility and honor. Al-Karim is one of the traditional names of God in Islam. The Spanish spelling with y and a final e is a Mexican convention for marking the stress and the vowel, not a separate word.
How the name formed
- karim
- karima
- Karime
- Karyme
Related forms: Karima · Karime · Kerime
Pronouncing Karyme
kah-REE-meh
Three syllables in Spanish, stress in the middle, with a light final e. English speakers usually reduce it to kuh-REEM, which loses the last syllable entirely.
Nicknames for Karyme
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
- 1996
- Most girls named
- 2003251 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #939reached in 2003
- Change vs 2024
- −18.2%18 in 2025, from 22
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.
Karyme in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Karima in Arabic — same name
- Karime in Spanish — spelling variant
- Kerime in Turkish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Karymes among us
people named Karyme are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Karyme
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Karyme
- #6325
- Karyme on the 2025 chart
- #899
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Karyme went to 18 girls in 2025, but Karime 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 — 5,426 places above the chart.
- Karime43
- Karyme18
About 1 girl in 26,349 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Karyme 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 Daniele test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Karyme's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Daniele climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Daniele's path sketches the road Karyme is walking now.
Karyme 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
Karyme beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Karyme in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A genuine Arabic name with a settled, well-attested meaning behind it.
- Familiar across Mexico and the American Southwest, so it is rarely met blank.
- The k-and-y spelling makes it visually distinctive without changing the sound.
- The final e is silent to English ears and will be dropped in speech.
- Karime, Karimee and Karyme all circulate, so the spelling needs saying aloud.
- The 2003 spike dates the name precisely for anyone who remembers those years.
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Feminine · #6325 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Karymes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Karyme are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Karyme?
- Karyme is one of 2 recorded spellings. Karime is the more common one — 43 births in 2025 against 18 for Karyme.
- How popular is the name Karyme in 2025?
- Karyme ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Karyme?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Karyme — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Karyme with classmates?
- Karyme will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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