Karsen — #1844 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Karsen

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,390 babies named Karsen between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Karsen currently holds the #1844 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 206 babies received it in a single year. Karsen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,723 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karsen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,832 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Karsen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 256 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Karsen in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karsen 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 3,390 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.