Karo
Karo was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 106 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,261, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 2008, the peak
Karo peaked in 2008, when 9 boys were given it, #8,658 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,261 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,196 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,589 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,098 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,255 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,442 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,532 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,658 | 4.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,127 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,384 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 | #7,933 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,668 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,059 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,706 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,781 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,803 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,558 | 2.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,777 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Karo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls 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 Karo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karo, and how old are they?
An estimated 104 Americans named Karo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 465 people named Karo (77 women and girls, 388 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 84 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.5 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 59,593 babies since 1880, Karo is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,840 babies recorded by SSA was a Karo (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 Karo
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 Karo and names like it
- Compare Karo and CaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKaro peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karo since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Karo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.