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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Karan

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

3,450

peak year 1956

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
170 births
Best rank
#746
in 1956
First recorded
1936
#2,447 that year
Last recorded
2004
no later published record
Average birth year
1958
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
64 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1956170#746Peak
  2. 1957164#787
  3. 1955156#766
  4. 1959152#833
  5. 1958137#872

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #746 in 1956 · peak births 170 in 1956

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 30% boys■ 70% girls

1,512 boys · 3,450 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Karan has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.