Karess — girls' name

What the Data Says About Karess

The Social Security Administration has registered 112 babies named Karess between 1975 and 1997, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karess currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 39 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karess performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Karess shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Karess in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karess 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 112 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.