Kareen
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kareen has been given to 2,048 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1977, with 41 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% girls, 36% boys all-time.
Babies named Kareen, 2020
1 in 668,000
Kareen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kareen over time
In 2020, Kareen went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kareen?
Kareen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 323,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kareen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kareen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kareens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kareen was born before 1972 — so the typical Kareen is around 53 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 18.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,048
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (237).
Is Kareen 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (41)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kareen
Kareen is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 60.1% against Kareen's 0.08%.
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 Kareen is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kareen was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 253,603 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Kareen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Kareen is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kareen was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 248,377 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8South Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Kareen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kareen around the world
Where Kareen 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 & Wales2006–2006#4,157in 2006
- Scotland1974–1992#641in 1992
- France1960–1991#3,727in 1991
- Canada1991–1998#2,038in 1998
- South Australia1945–1994#716in 1994
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kareen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Kareen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kareen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.