Karam

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Karam: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Karam: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #679, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#679highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2411
1999	#3900
2003	#2727
2005	#4798
2006	#3116
2008	#5545
2010	#4688
2012	#4838
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2016	#4096
2019	#5591
2021	#5581
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1104 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #679 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #880 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Karam appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 756 births with the name.

Karam across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Karam's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1104 (1996)	#679 (2023)	#880 (2024)	29 of 29	756 (1996–2024)	51 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#2411 (1997)	#2411 (1997)	#4709 (2023)	14 of 27	56 (1997–2023)	6 (1997)

Karam by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Karam in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	51	4 of 10	13
2000s	238	10 of 10	24
2010s	292	10 of 10	29
2020sbusiest	175	5 of 10	35

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 35 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 25, from 26 to 51.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Karam appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #679 in England and Wales in 2023.

Karam's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#880	36	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#679	51	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1084	26	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1004	29	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#908	32	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#958	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#996	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1121	24	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#988	29	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1462	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#812	37	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#748	39	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#883	29	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#793	32	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#875	24	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#833	24	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1078	14	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#953	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#948	16	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#924	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1104	12	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #679, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2025, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kanishk · #2954, 12y
Kara · #93, 54y
Karamveer · #2189, 22y
Karan · #246, 42y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Harun · #679, 29y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y
Giselle · #677, 29y
Maha · #677, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Harun · #679, 29y
Ruby-May · #679, 23y
Farhaan · #678, 27y
Marli · #680, 26y

Karam was ranked #679 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Karam and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Karam without appearing here.

Karam moved ahead of

Finlay Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #5785.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1651 and #1651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #833 and #1962.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3116 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #5707.
Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Karam

Linnea Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2727 and #3594 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #2084.
Harper Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2727 and #4373 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #2682.
Beau Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1805.
Logan Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #2738 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #1970.

Moved the opposite way to Karam

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Karam went from #2411 to #4709 while Ada went from #1543 to #37.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Karam went from #2411 to #4709 while Alma went from #2411 to #228.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Karam went from #2411 to #4709 while Alyssa went from #506 to #241.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Karam went from #2411 to #4709 while Amalie went from #3824 to #865.

Moved the same way as Karam

Cooper Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Karam went from #1578 to #880 and Cooper from #2022 to #139.
Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Karam went from #2411 to #4709 and Abigail from #24 to #134.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Karam went from #2411 to #4709 and Aimee from #61 to #1206.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Karam went from #2411 to #4709 and Aisling from #496 to #2504.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #679 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Karam

Karam at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Karam across 2 official records

Karam by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Karam appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Karam and the names beside it

Karam moved ahead of

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Karam at a glance

Karam across 2 official records

Karam by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Karam appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Karam

Karam and the names beside it

Karam moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Karam

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