Karington
Karington was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 158 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karington?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,113, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 2000, the peak
Karington peaked in 2000, when 14 girls were given it, #7,352 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #17,113 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,790 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,800 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,389 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,736 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,853 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,656 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,192 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,494 | 3.1 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,151 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 10 | #10,017 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,640 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,589 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,352 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,123 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,278 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,855 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,012 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karington has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karington, and how old are they?
An estimated 156 Americans named Karington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 192 people named Karington (161 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 157 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 Karington?
Karington is a less common spelling of Carrington: SSA has recorded 158 Karington and 4,481 Carrington since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,373 babies since 1880, Karington is the third most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 45 babies recorded by SSA was a Karington (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrington | 4,481 | 29 | 2000 |
| Karrington | 1,734 | 16 | 1999 |
| Karington | 158 | under 5 | 2000 |
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 Karington
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 Karington and names like it
- Compare Karington and CarringtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarington peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Karington.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karington alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.