Karsyn
Karsyn is given to both girls and boys: 390 girls and 168 boys were given it in 2025 (#719 among girls’ names and #1,209 among boys’, #1,088 among all names counting both); 12,267 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,200 Americans named Karsyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karsyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karsyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karsyn is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Carson.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karsyn?
#719 among girls’ names, 2025
Karsyn fell from #630 in 2015 to #719 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.25 to 0.24 per 1,000.
841 babies in 2020, the peak
Karsyn peaked in 2020, when 841 babies were given it (476 girls, #613 among girls’ names). The 558 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 390 | #719 | 168 | #1,209 |
| 2024 | 374 | #755 | 153 | #1,288 |
| 2023 | 430 | #680 | 224 | #982 |
| 2022 | 492 | #606 | 215 | #1,030 |
| 2021 | 488 | #612 | 234 | #961 |
| 2020 | 476 | #613 | 365 | #698 |
| 2019 | 502 | #602 | 192 | #1,064 |
| 2018 | 559 | #557 | 222 | #944 |
| 2017 | 534 | #564 | 155 | #1,199 |
| 2016 | 454 | #647 | 136 | #1,322 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 453 | #630 | 158 | #1,179 |
| 2014 | 435 | #658 | 110 | #1,478 |
| 2013 | 370 | #738 | 110 | #1,486 |
| 2012 | 377 | #739 | 106 | #1,520 |
| 2011 | 412 | #683 | 78 | #1,829 |
| 2010 | 332 | #814 | 75 | #1,905 |
| 2009 | 308 | #892 | 53 | #2,421 |
| 2008 | 271 | #985 | 39 | #3,040 |
| 2007 | 190 | #1,290 | 30 | #3,558 |
| 2006 | 202 | #1,200 | 17 | #5,188 |
| 2005 | 189 | #1,213 | 15 | #5,433 |
| 2004 | 186 | #1,205 | 19 | #4,507 |
| 2003 | 158 | #1,310 | 5 | #11,835 |
| 2002 | 152 | #1,292 | 7 | #8,927 |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,260 | 7 | #8,758 |
| 2000 | 136 | #1,372 | 5 | #11,299 |
| 1999 | 108 | #1,563 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,320 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,846 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,879 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,414 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,911 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,163 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,367 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,157 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,999 | 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 Karsyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 12,267 Americans recorded as Karsyn, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karsyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karsyn, and how old are they?
12,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,267 Americans ever recorded as Karsyn. The median Karsyn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 7,217 people named Karsyn (5,987 women and girls, 1,230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,410 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 128 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,350 |
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 Karsyn born?
The states with the most babies named Karsyn are Texas, Georgia and North Carolina, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | #536 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 44 | #463 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 32 | #567 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 26 | #547 | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 26 | #407 | 2.5× |
| California | 21 | #1,205 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 21 | #1,028 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 19 | #462 | 1.5× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #678 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #840 | 0.6× |
Where Karsyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karsyn is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1990 it was given 2.5 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 Karsyn 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 19,236 babies since 1880, Karsyn is the most given (64% of them). In 2025 it was given to 558 of their 819 babies (68%), again the 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 Karsyn
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 Karsyn and names like it
- Compare Karsyn and CarsynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKarsyn peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karsyn since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Karsyn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Karsyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karsyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.