Caren — girls' name

What the Data Says About Caren

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,560 babies named Caren between 1925 and 2019, spanning 95 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caren currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 388 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caren performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 2,683 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Caren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,365 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Caren in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caren in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 9,560 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.