Karon
Karon was last recorded in 2025, when 21 babies were given it; 9,406 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,730 Americans named Karon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 27 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karon is “a unisex given name.”
/ˈkeɹ.ən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,959, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
275 babies in 1948, the peak
Karon peaked in 1948, when 275 babies were given it (264 girls, #502 among girls’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 21 | #4,795 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 32 | #3,558 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 29 | #3,842 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 38 | #3,182 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 33 | #3,453 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 41 | #2,903 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 55 | #2,447 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 48 | #2,624 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 63 | #2,160 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 66 | #2,124 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 59 | #2,264 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 54 | #2,385 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 78 | #1,838 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 68 | #2,038 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 77 | #1,842 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 111 | #1,477 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 114 | #1,462 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,959 | 114 | #1,450 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 111 | #1,455 | |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,103 | 116 | #1,383 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,350 | 118 | #1,298 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,441 | 87 | #1,534 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 90 | #1,456 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,479 | 73 | #1,640 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,394 | 81 | #1,503 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,004 | 90 | #1,392 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,958 | 97 | #1,268 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,282 | 73 | #1,504 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,670 | 84 | #1,337 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,584 | 99 | #1,173 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,076 | 69 | #1,436 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,537 | 86 | #1,257 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,535 | 71 | #1,366 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,140 | 71 | #1,339 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,081 | 58 | #1,511 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,271 | 56 | #1,518 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,572 | 42 | #1,811 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,940 | 31 | #2,062 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,371 | 36 | #1,813 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,592 | 27 | #2,129 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,537 | 22 | #2,386 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,063 | 24 | #2,204 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,376 | 30 | #1,843 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,703 | 41 | #1,527 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,081 | 25 | #2,118 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,216 | 25 | #2,142 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,760 | 34 | #1,690 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,233 | 28 | #1,850 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,074 | 29 | #1,808 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,316 | 20 | #2,290 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,791 | 18 | #2,400 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,321 | 9 | #3,702 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,811 | 11 | #3,122 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,248 | 14 | #2,596 |
| 1971 | 57 | #1,632 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,396 | 6 | #4,495 |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,335 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 93 | #1,110 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 77 | #1,216 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 102 | #1,026 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 130 | #876 | 6 | #3,721 |
| 1964 | 153 | #842 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 160 | #824 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 160 | #830 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 188 | #759 | 7 | #3,516 |
| 1960 | 184 | #754 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 164 | #798 | 10 | #2,733 |
| 1958 | 206 | #687 | 6 | #3,732 |
| 1957 | 218 | #665 | 9 | #2,916 |
| 1956 | 244 | #611 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 207 | #648 | 7 | #3,343 |
| 1954 | 202 | #649 | 8 | #3,066 |
| 1953 | 172 | #689 | 6 | #3,616 |
| 1952 | 208 | #601 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 188 | #635 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 221 | #558 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 203 | #581 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 264 | #502 | 11 | #2,384 |
| 1947 | 236 | #552 | 6 | #3,554 |
| 1946 | 240 | #508 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 180 | #545 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 187 | #532 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 203 | #528 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 187 | #542 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 128 | #627 | 6 | #3,318 |
| 1940 | 105 | #677 | 8 | #2,764 |
| 1939 | 69 | #843 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,574 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,660 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,448 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,987 | 5 | #3,921 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,540 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Karon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,406 Americans recorded as Karon, 66% are girls and 34% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Karon every year since 1996. In 2025 it went to 21 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karon, and how old are they?
7,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 9,406 Americans ever recorded as Karon. The median Karon alive today is 58 years old; half are between 27 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 7,463 people named Karon (5,315 women and girls, 2,148 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 556 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,970 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 612 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Karon born?
The states with the most babies named Karon are Texas, Michigan and California, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 680 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 402 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 389 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 372 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 317 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 240 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 217 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 213 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 211 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 208 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Karon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karon is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1933 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Karon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,074,356 babies since 1880, Karon is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 220 babies (9.5%), the second 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 Karon
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 Karon and names like it
- Compare Karon and KarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sKaron peaked in 1948.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karon since 1910.
- The top names of 1948The year the most babies were named Karon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Karon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.