Karianna
Karianna was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,398 among girls’ names; 487 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karianna?
#11,398 among girls’ names, 2025
Karianna fell from #5,207 in 2015 to #11,398 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 5.0 per million.
26 babies in 2006, the peak
Karianna peaked in 2006, when 26 girls were given it, #5,307 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,398 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,775 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,339 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,624 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,277 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,651 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,948 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,931 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,775 | 10.2 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,207 | 14.6 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #8,266 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,583 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,423 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,257 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,703 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,932 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,234 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,565 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,307 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,512 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,013 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,740 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,001 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,786 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,853 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,875 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,586 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,737 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,466 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,267 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,860 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,525 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,074 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,207 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,327 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,104 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,750 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karianna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karianna, and how old are they?
An estimated 482 Americans named Karianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 413 people named Karianna (411 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 451 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,494 babies since 1880, Karianna is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 380 babies (2.1%), the third most given that year.
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 Karianna
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 Karianna and names like it
- Compare Karianna and KarinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarianna peaked in 2006.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karianna since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Karianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.