Karthik
Origin
Tamil
Syllables
2
Peak era
1980s
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
the everyday short form of Karthikeyan, the god Murugan as lord of the Krittika stars. The th spelling is the Tamil signature (North Indian families write Kartik); ubiquitous for Tamil boys born in the 1980s and 1990s from Chennai to Singapore and Malaysia, and one of the first names Tamil-American parents reach for because every English speaker can say it
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890speak 1980s2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Karthik peaked in the 1980s.
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