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Karun

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Karun has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 2002, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Karun, 2011

1 in 732,000

Karun over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karun: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karun means

Karun is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Karun is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Karun between 1987 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2002; its best national rank was #7,560 in 1987.

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 Karun?

Karun had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karun sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 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 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karuns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karun was born before 2002 — so the typical Karun is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Karun 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 2002 (6)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,560
1987

Spellings of Karun

Karun is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 55.9% against Karun's <0.01%.

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.

Karun around the world

Where Karun 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Karun by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,560
1987
Peak year
2002
6 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karun

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

KarymKarriKartiKartarKarmKarioKarevKarifKarmaniKarlanKarsynnKarlenKardaeKartellKaracKarremKarmenKartyrKarnaKardeKarlozKarmelKarsanKarch

Sibling names for Karun

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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