Karen
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#1,281
down −26 places
2025 births
175
down −11 births
All-time births
987,989
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1957
- 40,591 births
- Best rank
- #3
- in 1965
- First recorded
- 1881
- #786 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1961
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 140 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 195740,591#5Peak
- 195640,052#7
- 195838,487#4
- 195936,784#4
- 196036,378#4
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #3 in 1965 · peak births 40,591 in 1957
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
2,785 boys · 987,989 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 Karen has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.