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Karianne

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Karianne has been given to 999 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 36 recorded.

Babies named Karianne, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karianne: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karianne means

Karianne is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Karianne is used in Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 999 girls were recorded with the name Karianne between 1967 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1986; its best national rank was #2,272 in 1971.

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 Karianne?

Karianne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karianne 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karianne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kariannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karianne was born before 1986 — so the typical Karianne is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
999
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (288).

Is Karianne 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (36)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,272
1971

Spellings of Karianne

Karianne is not the most common spelling — Arianna is, with 38.5% against Karianne's 0.37%.

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 Karianne is used

Across 1910–2025, Karianne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 774,250 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Karianne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karianne around the world

Where Karianne 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #478
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1970–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Karianne 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
#2,272
1971
Peak year
1986
36 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
999
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karianne

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

KarinneKarishmaKaralineKaralynnKarmellaKariannaKareemaKarizmaKareemahKareenaKaralynKarolyneKarianaKarolineAdelynneLilianneAdalynneRaelynneKarminKarismaKarolinaKarynneKarielleKariyah

Sibling names for Karianne

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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