Karenann
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karenann has been given to 145 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1944, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Karenann, 1986
1 in 593,000
Karenann 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Karenann?
Karenann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1986
- 1 in 593,000
- 6 of 3,556,724 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 286,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1986
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 410,890 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karenann sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 410,890 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karenann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karenanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karenann was born before 1958 — so the typical Karenann is around 67 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 38.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 115
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (56).
Is Karenann 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 1944 (12)
- Years since peak
- 81
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Karenann
Karenann is not the most common spelling — Karena is, with 79.0% against Karenann's 3.3%.
Karenann around the world
Where Karenann 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.
- South Australia1963–1992#704in 1992
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Karenann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Karenann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karenann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.