Karimah is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Karimah has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Karimah. That means that a girl named Karimah is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Karimah.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Karimah. Girls named Karimah have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,219 Karimah ranked higher than ever in 1975. By comparison, there have been 92 years in which the first name Karimah has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2017. In general, parents name their daughters Karimah only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Karimah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Karimah continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Karimah that year, ranking #11,784 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Karimah, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Karimah is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 49 Americans in total bear this name. And these 49 women are located in only three states: New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Karimah and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Karimah in relation to it’s female population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 305,982 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Karimah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Karimah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Karimah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Karimah, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Karimah
Karimah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
R
I
M
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
A
R
I
M
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Karimah sounds like this:
