Fun Facts About the Name Karizma
- More than 1 thousand babies named Karizma: U.S. records list 1,293 babies given the name Karizma from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Karizma Mean?
Karizma is a respelling of Charisma, a name taken from the Greek noun charisma (χάρισμα), meaning "gift of grace," "favor," or "free gift." The word is built from charis (χάρις), "grace, kindness, favor," plus the suffix -ma, which names the result of an action, so the literal sense is something given graciously rather than earned or owed.
In Greek Christian writing the word came to mean a gift granted by God, especially a spiritual gift given to a believer. English later widened charisma to mean compelling personal charm or magnetism, a sense that is now the everyday one. The K spelling matches languages that write the word that way, notably Turkish karizma, the ordinary noun for charisma, which passed into Turkish through French charisme from the same Greek source.
Karizma Name History & Origins
The word behind the name traveled from Greek into Latin as charisma, where it was used in the Vulgate for the spiritual gifts described in Paul's letters, and from Latin into the modern European languages. It kept a mainly religious sense in English for centuries before the twentieth-century meaning of personal magnetism became standard. The K form reflects the spelling that took hold in Turkish and in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, all of which write the word as karizma.
As a given name, Karizma belongs with vocabulary names such as Grace, Hope, or Serenity, which are chosen for what the word means rather than inherited from an older name stock. Its parent form, Charisma, has been used as a girl's name in the United States, and Karizma appears alongside it as an alternative spelling. Because the word is spelled with a K in Turkish and in several Balkan languages, the name is also at home in those countries, and it is possible that its use there and its use in English-speaking countries grew up separately, from the same word rather than from one another.
How Popular is the Name Karizma?
Karizma has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2001. Its best rank was #1,536 in 2001.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,674 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #7,749 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 2023 | #6,785 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2022 | #5,394 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2021 | #7,446 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #4,943 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 2019 | #6,073 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2018 | #5,388 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2017 | #5,243 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2016 | #5,372 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2015 | #5,045 | 27 | 0.0015% |
| 2014 | #4,052 | 37 | 0.0021% |
| 2013 | #4,295 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2012 | #3,498 | 46 | 0.0026% |
| 2011 | #3,380 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 2010 | #3,442 | 47 | 0.0026% |
| 2009 | #3,486 | 47 | 0.0026% |
| 2008 | #3,139 | 54 | 0.0029% |
| 2007 | #3,270 | 52 | 0.0027% |
| 2006 | #2,927 | 59 | 0.0031% |
| 2005 | #2,466 | 71 | 0.0038% |
| 2004 | #2,873 | 56 | 0.0030% |
| 2003 | #2,751 | 57 | 0.0031% |
| 2002 | #2,454 | 65 | 0.0036% |
| 2001 | #1,536 | 121 | 0.0067% |
| 2000 | #2,524 | 60 | 0.0033% |
| 1999 | #3,022 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 1998 | #3,260 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 1997 | #4,067 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 1996 | #6,913 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1995 | #5,558 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1994 | #4,178 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 1993 | #6,426 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1992 | #7,761 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1991 | #7,653 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1990 | #9,673 | 8 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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