Karron
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karron has been given to 551 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1945, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.
Babies named Karron, 1987
1 in 721,000
Karron 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Karron over time
In 2019, Karron went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Karron?
Karron had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1987
- 1 in 721,000
- 5 of 3,605,072 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 348,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1987
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 499,770 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karron sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1987 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 499,770 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karrons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karron was born before 1954 — so the typical Karron is around 71 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 34.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 239
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (131).
Is Karron 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 1945 (19)
- Years since peak
- 80
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 55.9% average annual change
Spellings of Karron
Karron is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 72.4% against Karron's 0.03%.
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.
Karron around the world
Where Karron 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 Australia1962–1971#724in 1971
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Karron by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Karron
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karron
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.