Karsin
Karsin was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,184 among boys’ names; 318 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karsin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karsin?
#10,184 among boys’ names, 2025
Karsin fell from #5,871 in 2015 to #10,184 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 4.1 per million.
28 babies in 2014, the peak
Karsin peaked in 2014, when 28 babies were given it (22 boys, #4,460 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,184 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,658 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,576 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 14 | #6,314 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,341 | 13 | #6,502 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 11 | #7,255 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,097 | 18 | #5,251 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 21 | #4,665 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,492 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,252 | 18 | #5,223 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 15 | #5,871 | |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,582 | 22 | #4,460 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 15 | #5,796 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,217 | 19 | #4,943 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 18 | #5,088 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 17 | #5,362 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,438 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #7,998 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 9 | #8,576 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #10,128 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,708 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,478 | 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 Karsin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 318 Americans recorded as Karsin, 14% are girls and 86% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 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 Karsin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karsin, and how old are they?
An estimated 315 Americans named Karsin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 269 people named Karsin (91 women and girls, 178 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 250 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 175,369 babies since 1880, Karsin is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 4,033 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Karsin
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 Karsin and names like it
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