Kariann

Girls' name

Form of Karianne

Kariann has been given to 789 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1986, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Kariann, 2015

1 in 463,000

Kariann over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kariann: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Karianne

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kariann means

Kariann is a form of Karianne.

Origin, language, and formation

Kariann is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Karianne.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 789 girls were recorded with the name Kariann between 1965 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1986; its best national rank was #2,636 in 1975.

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 Kariann?

Kariann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 463,000; 8 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only: 1 in 223,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 320,718 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kariann 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 2015 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 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kariann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karianns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kariann was born before 1985 — so the typical Kariann is around 40 today.

Median birth year: 1985; About 40 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 32.2%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 789; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (241).

Is Kariann 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 1986 (31)
Years since peak: 39; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 35.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,636; 1975

Spellings of Kariann

Kariann is not the most common spelling — Marian is, with 20.2% against Kariann's 0.11%.

Marian20.2%141,944
Ariana17.1%120,380
Arianna14.8%104,152
Marianne9.3%65,520
Maryann9.0%62,953
Karina8.7%61,464
Mariana6.5%45,887
Karin4.1%28,532

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 Kariann is used

Across 1910–2025, Kariann was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 582,024 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New York1 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. Kariann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kariann around the world

Where Kariann 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.

Canada
1991–1991
#2,397
in 1991

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kariann 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: —
Best rank ever: #2,636; 1975
Peak year: 1986; 31 that year
First recorded: 1965
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 789
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kariann

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

Karenann Kareema Kariana Karizma Kariyah Kareena Karlynn Karalyn Karsynn Karaline Karalynn Karyna Karlina Karmin Karisma Karman Karishma Karmann Kariah Karmella Karine Kareli Karianna Karmela

Sibling names for Kariann

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

For a sister

Domonique Shantell Linsey Candis Corey Sade Janay Santana

For a brother

Whitney Shea Derik Derrell Darell Marques Elizabeth Garrick

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