Karenna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Karenna

The Social Security Administration has registered 337 babies named Karenna between 1993 and 2018, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karenna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 54 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karenna performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 229 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Karenna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 22 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Karenna in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karenna 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 337 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.