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Caryn

Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Karen

Caryn has been given to 12,182 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1965, with 492 recorded.

Babies named Caryn, 2019

1 in 694,000

Caryn over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caryn: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Karen

Ancient Greek

What Caryn means

Caryn belongs to the name family reached through Caryn → Karen → Catherine. Its meaning is “each of the two”.

Origin, language, and formation

Caryn is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karen and Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,182 girls were recorded with the name Caryn between 1939 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 492 in 1965; its best national rank was #421 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Caryn?

Caryn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caryn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caryn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caryns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caryn was born before 1969 — so the typical Caryn is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
11,675
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (3,351).

Is Caryn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1965 (492)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#421
1965

Spellings of Caryn

Caryn is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 55.5% against Caryn's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Caryn is used

Across 1910–2025, Caryn was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 15,784 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 5,882
  2. 2New York1 in 6,667
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 8,333
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  5. 5California1 in 12,500
  6. 6Michigan1 in 12,500
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 14,286
  8. 8Ohio1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caryn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caryn around the world

Where Caryn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2006
    #4,157
    in 2006
  • Scotland
    1975–2004
    #663
    in 2004
  • Canada
    1991–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1953–1995
    #712
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Caryn

People whose public names include Caryn, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Caryn in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Caryn. Linked forms have their own page here.

CarinKarynCaryne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Caryn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#421
1965
Peak year
1965
492 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
12,182
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Caryn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Caryn

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Caryn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DeenaRenaeTamraFeleciaGenaSharlaValarieJaneenMarcyTanaRenitaKimberlee

Sibling names for Caryn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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