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Karena

#7,305 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Karen

Karena has been given to 3,508 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #7,305 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Karena, 2025

1 in 221,000

Karena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karena: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Karen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karena means

Karena is a elaboration of Karen.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Karena is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Karena → Karen → Catherine. The family’s proposed meaning is “each of the two”, recorded in English with the source elements hekáteros.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,508 girls were recorded with the name Karena between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,043 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,767 in 2020 to #7,305 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,134 in 2015 to #7,305 in 2025.

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 Karena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,305
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karena 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 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karena was born before 1987 — so the typical Karena is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,494
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (962).

Is Karena 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
+1,384
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−538
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,171
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.2%
Peak was 1974 (114)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,043
1974

Spellings of Karena

Karena is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 54.0% against Karena's 0.19%.

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 Karena is used

Across 1910–2025, Karena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 91,233 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Indiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 100,000

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. Karena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karena around the world

Where Karena 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
    1996–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1978–1991
    #634
    in 1991
  • Ireland
    1971–2018
    #734
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2005
    #2,213
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1950–1990
    #691
    in 1990

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

Notable people named Karena

People whose public names include Karena, 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.

Karena in other languages

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

KarenCarenaKarinaKarêne

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

Karena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,305
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 538
Best rank ever
#1,043
1974
Peak year
1974
114 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,508
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Karena

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

KareenaKarterKarelyKarimeKarlynKarmynKarymeKarsonKarsenKarmenKarleyKarlenaKarimaKarsynKarriKarrieKarineKarieKarlieKarismaKarminKarolynSirenaKarlee

Names with a curve like Karena

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

AngelicDaciaDeliciaShaniTorrieCelenaMicaShaneMirnaNicolleJenifferTory

Sibling names for Karena

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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