Karon — unisex name

What the Data Says About Karon

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,208 babies named Karon between 1933 and 2008, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karon currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 264 babies received it in a single year. Karon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,177 additional births since 1935.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karon performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 2,030 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Karon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 667 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Karon in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karon 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 6,208 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.