Karan — unisex name

What the Data Says About Karan

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,450 babies named Karan between 1936 and 2004, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karan currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2004. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 170 babies received it in a single year. Karan is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,500 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karan performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 1,316 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Karan shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 326 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Karan in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karan 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 3,450 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.