Karsen
Karsen is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 81 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,494 among girls’ names and #1,928 among boys’, #3,289 among all names counting both); 5,227 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Karsen every year since 2004.
An estimated 5,170 Americans named Karsen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karsen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karsen?
#1,928 among boys’ names, 2025
Karsen fell from #1,076 in 2015 to #1,928 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 96.0 to 47.4 per million.
252 babies in 2010, the peak
Karsen peaked in 2010, when 252 babies were given it (181 boys, #1,063 among boys’ names). The 112 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,494 | 81 | #1,928 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,161 | 88 | #1,845 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,802 | 116 | #1,522 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,341 | 112 | #1,583 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,770 | 136 | #1,362 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,747 | 149 | #1,248 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,642 | 185 | #1,080 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,033 | 206 | #1,006 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,222 | 184 | #1,074 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,353 | 175 | #1,116 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,276 | 184 | #1,076 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,991 | 195 | #1,037 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,951 | 149 | #1,209 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,292 | 200 | #998 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,197 | 173 | #1,080 |
| 2010 | 71 | #2,574 | 181 | #1,063 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,739 | 135 | #1,299 |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,006 | 132 | #1,322 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,683 | 102 | #1,546 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,869 | 105 | #1,464 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,563 | 71 | #1,822 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,273 | 84 | #1,571 |
| 2003 | 97 | #1,889 | 60 | #1,946 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,618 | 62 | #1,835 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,020 | 54 | #1,991 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,890 | 47 | #2,152 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,083 | 27 | #3,062 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,525 | 13 | #5,025 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,126 | 10 | #5,867 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,987 | 16 | #4,095 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,526 | 7 | #7,382 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,649 | 9 | #6,095 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,450 | 12 | #4,856 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,602 | 7 | #7,047 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,156 | 5 | #8,879 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,166 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,338 | 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 Karsen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,227 Americans recorded as Karsen, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karsen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karsen, and how old are they?
5,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,227 Americans ever recorded as Karsen. The median Karsen alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,830 people named Karsen (1,417 women and girls, 2,413 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,322 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 211 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,450 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,520 |
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 Karsen born?
The states with the most babies named Karsen are Ohio, Texas and Louisiana, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 9 | #899 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,999 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #630 | 1.7× |
Where Karsen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karsen is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1989 it was given 1.7 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 boys’ 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 Karsen 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 175,369 babies since 1880, Karsen is the third most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 4,033 babies (2.8%), again the third most given.
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 Karsen
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 Karsen and names like it
- Compare Karsen and CarsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKarsen peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karsen since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Karsen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karsen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.