Caryn — girls' name

What the Data Says About Caryn

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,182 babies named Caryn between 1939 and 2019, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caryn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1965, when 492 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caryn performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 3,351 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Caryn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,877 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Caryn in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caryn 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 12,182 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.