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Karene

Girls' name

Possibly each of the two, through Karen

Karene has been given to 501 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1963, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Karene, 1997

1 in 604,000

Karene over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karene: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly each of the two, through Karen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karene means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Karene is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karen and Catherine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 501 girls were recorded with the name Karene between 1916 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1963; its best national rank was #2,260 in 1942.

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 Karene?

Karene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 604,000
6 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 290,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,740 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karene 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 1997 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 418,740 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karene was born before 1960 — so the typical Karene is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
344
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1960s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Karene 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 1963 (17)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,260
1942

Spellings of Karene

Karene is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 44.2% against Karene's 0.02%.

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 Karene is used

Across 1910–2025, Karene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Karene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karene around the world

Where Karene 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.

  • France
    1962–2013
    #5,169
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1961–1977
    #637
    in 1977

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Karene 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
#2,260
1942
Peak year
1963
17 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
501
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karene

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

KareliKariahKarmanKarleneKarynaKarminKarysKarianaKariyahKarineKarmahKarlynnKarsynnKarimaKarlinaKareemaKarsenMaxeneSoleneAyleneKarlinKarsonKariyaKaryme

Sibling names for Karene

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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