Karena — #8479 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Karena

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,493 babies named Karena between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karena currently holds the #8479 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 114 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karena performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 962 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Karena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 486 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Karena in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karena 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 3,493 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.