Caron
Caron was last recorded in 2025, when 5 babies were given it; 4,212 Americans have been recorded with it between 1935 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,620 Americans named Caron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 32 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caron?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,012, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
171 babies in 1956, the peak
Caron peaked in 1956, when 171 girls were given it, #741 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #12,357 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 10 | #7,861 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #7,826 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #7,851 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 13 | #6,384 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 16 | #5,492 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 19 | #4,988 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 19 | #4,949 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,375 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 19 | #4,974 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 11 | #7,142 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 26 | #3,916 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 26 | #3,877 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 33 | #3,307 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 37 | #3,056 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 45 | #2,687 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 43 | #2,808 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 71 | #1,984 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 70 | #2,000 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 47 | #2,545 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 66 | #1,920 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,012 | 62 | #1,953 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 44 | #2,394 | |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,314 | 39 | #2,508 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,255 | 23 | #3,625 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 12 | #5,617 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 12 | #5,351 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,716 | 20 | #3,606 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 16 | #4,080 | |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,929 | 12 | #4,909 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 10 | #5,546 | |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,681 | 9 | #5,924 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,153 | 14 | #4,249 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 11 | #4,915 | |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,701 | 8 | #6,020 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,323 | 9 | #5,432 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,881 | 14 | #3,829 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,400 | 11 | #4,190 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,972 | 11 | #3,998 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,752 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,077 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,018 | 7 | #5,043 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,830 | 7 | #4,997 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,024 | 11 | #3,722 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,857 | 13 | #3,240 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,941 | 9 | #4,184 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,626 | 9 | #4,120 |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,315 | 8 | #4,203 |
| 1977 | 115 | #1,110 | 7 | #4,654 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,941 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,201 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,102 | 6 | #4,705 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,136 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,460 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,517 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,654 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,933 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,712 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,401 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 79 | #1,210 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 84 | #1,168 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 84 | #1,206 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 86 | #1,180 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 107 | #1,045 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 109 | #1,050 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 117 | #994 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 110 | #1,004 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 118 | #950 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 138 | #864 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 171 | #741 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 123 | #875 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 113 | #904 | 5 | #3,896 |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,039 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,028 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,506 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,629 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,324 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,251 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,377 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 49 | #1,228 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 41 | #1,248 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,315 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 64 | #992 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,302 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,225 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,375 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,135 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,352 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,332 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 5 | #3,724 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Caron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,212 Americans recorded as Caron, 75% are girls and 25% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caron, and how old are they?
3,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 4,212 Americans ever recorded as Caron. The median Caron alive today is 56 years old; half are between 32 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 4,026 people named Caron (3,224 women and girls, 802 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 138 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,370 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 902 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 355 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 660 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 195 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caron born?
The states with the most babies named Caron are California, New York and Texas, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 290 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 212 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 195 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 128 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 87 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 82 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 68 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 66 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 59 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 45 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caron with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,073,967 babies since 1880, Caron is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 219 babies (2.3%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caron
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caron and names like it
- Compare Caron and KarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCaron peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caron since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Caron.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Caron alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.