Kareen
Kareen was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 2,048 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Kareen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 37 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kareen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kareen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,276, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
100 babies in 1975, the peak
Kareen peaked in 1975, when 100 babies were given it (29 girls, #2,635 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #16,276 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,845 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,987 | 5 | #13,250 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,590 | 7 | #10,206 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,547 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,892 | 7 | #10,255 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,851 | 7 | #10,215 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,130 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,084 | 6 | #11,823 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,998 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 11 | #10,232 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,702 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,230 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,350 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,614 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,528 | 8 | #7,930 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,783 | 9 | #7,105 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,450 | 13 | #5,174 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,522 | 5 | #10,463 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,668 | 7 | #7,693 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,136 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,378 | 11 | #5,325 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,558 | 7 | #7,353 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,085 | 19 | #3,433 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,829 | 16 | #3,836 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,644 | 16 | #3,729 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,584 | 17 | #3,524 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,172 | 19 | #3,151 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,734 | 20 | #2,800 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,424 | 11 | #4,093 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,066 | 18 | #2,839 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,898 | 15 | #3,143 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,913 | 29 | #1,914 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,184 | 23 | #2,240 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,467 | 35 | #1,688 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,478 | 29 | #1,925 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,556 | 35 | #1,674 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,309 | 31 | #1,812 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,818 | 36 | #1,584 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,233 | 45 | #1,362 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,898 | 50 | #1,231 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,635 | 71 | #977 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,573 | 49 | #1,187 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,594 | 30 | #1,604 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,782 | 36 | #1,429 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,194 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,938 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,054 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,820 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,916 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,619 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,641 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,595 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,246 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,564 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,390 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,771 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,333 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,352 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,570 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,029 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,033 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,640 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,870 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,864 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,747 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,834 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,752 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,879 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,114 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,675 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,675 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,240 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,110 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,734 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,225 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,866 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,497 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,906 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,294 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,604 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,984 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,831 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,538 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,431 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,515 | under 5 |
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 Kareen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,048 Americans recorded as Kareen, 64% are girls and 36% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kareen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kareen, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,048 Americans ever recorded as Kareen. The median Kareen alive today is 48 years old; half are between 37 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 2,154 people named Kareen (1,813 women and girls, 341 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,849 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 73 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 241 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 686 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 517 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 219 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 41 |
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 Kareen born?
The states with the most babies named Kareen are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 259 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 55 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Kareen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kareen is most over-represented in New York: since 1921 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kareen 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 1,061,798 babies since 1880, Kareen is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 214 babies recorded by SSA was a Kareen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kareen
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 Kareen and names like it
- Compare Kareen and KarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKareen peaked in 1975.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kareen since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Kareen.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kareen alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.