Caron — unisex name

What the Data Says About Caron

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,179 babies named Caron between 1937 and 2004, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caron currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 171 babies received it in a single year. Caron is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,028 additional births since 1935.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caron performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,014 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Caron shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 284 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Caron in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caron 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 3,179 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.