Karren
Karren was last recorded in 2010, when 7 babies were given it; 2,177 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,640 Americans named Karren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 58 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karren?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,214, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
100 babies in 1943, the peak
Karren peaked in 1943, when 100 girls were given it, #778 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #14,214 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,960 | 2.6 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,755 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,716 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,242 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,857 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,585 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,007 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,475 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,136 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 | #12,474 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,936 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,737 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,011 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,656 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,071 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,901 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,586 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,611 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,057 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,074 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,409 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,723 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,342 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,659 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,342 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,440 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,316 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,854 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,975 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,564 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,030 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,154 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,106 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,573 | 31.5 |
| 1966 | 56 | #1,481 | 33.1 |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,534 | 30.0 |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,474 | 31.1 |
| 1963 | 70 | #1,326 | 36.3 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,716 | 22.4 |
| 1961 | 62 | #1,422 | 30.7 |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,342 | 33.6 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,425 | 28.2 |
| 1958 | 61 | #1,354 | 30.3 |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,467 | 25.9 |
| 1956 | 59 | #1,353 | 29.4 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,563 | 22.0 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,635 | 20.1 |
| 1953 | 73 | #1,134 | 38.8 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,359 | 27.5 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,493 | 22.2 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,307 | 28.6 |
| 1949 | 54 | #1,242 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,076 | 40.0 |
| 1947 | 76 | #1,016 | 42.9 |
| 1946 | 76 | #956 | 48.4 |
| 1945 | 66 | #947 | 50.5 |
| 1944 | 84 | #833 | 63.3 |
| 1943 | 100 | #778 | 71.7 |
| 1942 | 90 | #809 | 66.6 |
| 1941 | 51 | #1,025 | 42.2 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,304 | 28.9 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,763 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,668 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,295 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,605 | 10.6 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,354 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karren has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karren, and how old are they?
1,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 2,177 Americans ever recorded as Karren. The median Karren alive today is 67 years old; half are between 58 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 2,169 people named Karren (2,137 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,805 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 232 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 849 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 403 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 118 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 38 |
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 Karren born?
The states with the most babies named Karren are California, Texas and Utah, with 57% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 129 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 100 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Utah | 62 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Illinois | 45 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Karren with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Karren?
Karren is a less common spelling of Karen: SSA has recorded 2,177 Karren and 990,774 Karen since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,061,798 babies since 1880, Karren is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 214 babies recorded by SSA was a Karren (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 Karren
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 Karren and names like it
- Compare Karren and KarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sKarren peaked in 1943.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karren since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Karren.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Karren alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.