Kharma
Girl · KAR-muh · Sanskrit
Kharma is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “action; deed”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Kharma mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Karma; Sanskrit word, also a Tibetan given name
“action; deed”
From the Sanskrit word for action, the principle in Hinduism and Buddhism that deeds shape future lives.
- Say it
- KAR-muh
Meaning borrowed from Karma. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kharma a girl's or a boy's name?
Kharma is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kharma in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Kharma, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2008, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had fewer girls named Kharma than any year since 2001.
Half of all the girls named Kharma in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 132 girls in the US were given Kharma or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,393, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Kharma in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,908 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,795 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,014 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,243 |
| 2010 | 28 | #4,972 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,943 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,709 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,049 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,072 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,369 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,476 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Kharma
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arya Prisha Krisha Kavya Isha Aadhya Aarya Viha Saanvi Navya Aanya Dhara
Other spellings of Kharma
Names related to Kharma
More Sanskrit names
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