Keren
Keren was given to 66 girls in 2025, #2,632 among girls’ names; 5,014 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,860 Americans named Keren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Keren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Keren?
#2,632 among girls’ names, 2025
Keren fell from #1,736 in 2015 to #2,632 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 67.8 to 41.1 per million.
189 babies in 2019, the peak
Keren peaked in 2019, when 189 girls were given it, #1,240 among girls’ names. The 66 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,632 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,186 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,954 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,098 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,595 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,240 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 189 | #1,240 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,653 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,925 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 133 | #1,641 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,736 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,809 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 113 | #1,812 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,711 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,560 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,599 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,669 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,491 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,776 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,696 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,898 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,814 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 120 | #1,607 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,846 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,863 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,747 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,006 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,836 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,143 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,901 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,135 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,167 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,050 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,113 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,091 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,109 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,202 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,258 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,138 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,988 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,298 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,209 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,306 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,285 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,461 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,130 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,927 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,106 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,951 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,036 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,979 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,401 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,114 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,858 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,292 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,910 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,261 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,889 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,393 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,427 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,163 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,920 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,016 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,865 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,472 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,869 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,017 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,902 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,584 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Keren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Keren has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Keren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Keren, and how old are they?
4,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 5,014 Americans ever recorded as Keren. The median Keren alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 5,666 people named Keren (5,563 women and girls, 103 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,291 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 222 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 447 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 865 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,550 |
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 Keren born?
The states with the most babies named Keren are Texas, Florida and Maryland, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,306 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,618 | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 6 | #786 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,363 | 0.6× |
Where Keren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Keren is most over-represented in New York: since 1939 it was given 1.5 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 Keren 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,310 babies since 1880, Keren is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 71 babies (93%), 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 Keren
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 Keren and names like it
- Compare Keren and KerinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKeren peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Keren since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Keren.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Keren alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.