Karrington
Karrington is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,402 among girls’ names and #9,301 among boys’, #12,057 among all names counting both); 1,734 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Karrington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karrington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karrington?
#11,402 among girls’ names, 2025
Karrington fell from #2,909 in 2015 to #11,402 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.6 to 5.0 per million.
112 babies in 1999, the peak
Karrington peaked in 1999, when 112 babies were given it (94 girls, #1,724 among girls’ names). The 16 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,402 | 8 | #9,301 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,773 | 12 | #7,043 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,536 | 5 | #13,197 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,567 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,157 | 7 | #10,257 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,311 | 6 | #11,304 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,110 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,508 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,108 | 7 | #10,232 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,495 | 5 | #13,215 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,909 | 7 | #10,088 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,024 | 11 | #7,290 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,103 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,953 | 6 | #11,533 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,032 | 8 | #9,185 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,818 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 84 | #2,322 | 6 | #11,724 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,292 | 13 | #6,589 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,406 | 6 | #11,665 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,442 | 10 | #7,725 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,064 | 5 | #12,385 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,821 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,556 | 11 | #6,497 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,912 | 7 | #8,926 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,220 | 16 | #4,783 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,763 | 13 | #5,437 |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,724 | 18 | #4,079 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,382 | 21 | #3,546 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,056 | 11 | #5,471 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,384 | 6 | #8,458 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 8 | #6,681 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,994 | 7 | #7,356 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,137 | 11 | #5,185 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,078 | 11 | #5,059 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,082 | 12 | #4,620 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,637 | 10 | #5,188 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,498 | 5 | #8,559 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,901 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 12 | #3,856 |
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 Karrington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,734 Americans recorded as Karrington, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karrington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karrington, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,734 Americans ever recorded as Karrington. The median Karrington alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,425 people named Karrington (1,178 women and girls, 247 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 496 |
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 Karrington born?
The states with the most babies named Karrington are Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 185 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 55 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 49 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 44 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 19 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 13 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Karrington is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karrington is most over-represented in Texas: since 1987 it was given 1.1 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 Karrington 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,373 babies since 1880, Karrington is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 45 babies (36%), again the second most given.
| 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 Karrington
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1980-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Kaylen | 8,504 |
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 Karrington and names like it
- Compare Karrington and CarringtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKarrington peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karrington since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Karrington.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karrington alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.