Karenna
Karenna was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 337 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karenna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karenna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,696, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
54 babies in 2001, the peak
Karenna peaked in 2001, when 54 girls were given it, #2,750 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,696 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,243 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,773 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,481 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,569 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,733 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,941 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,935 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,191 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,564 | 8.8 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 19 | #6,710 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,306 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,090 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,684 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,169 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,750 | 30.0 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,361 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,451 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,256 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,852 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,464 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,004 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,419 | 7.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karenna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karenna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karenna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karenna, and how old are they?
An estimated 333 Americans named Karenna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 20 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 408 people named Karenna (408 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 334 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Karenna?
Karenna is a less common spelling of Karena: SSA has recorded 337 Karenna and 3,508 Karena since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,612 babies since 1880, Karenna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 408 babies recorded by SSA was a Karenna (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 Karenna
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 Karenna and names like it
- Compare Karenna and KarenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarenna peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karenna since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Karenna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karenna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.