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Keren

#2,632 in 2025Girls' name

Horn

Keren has been given to 5,014 babies in the U.S. since 1939. In 2025 it ranked #2,632 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 189 recorded.

Babies named Keren, 2025

1 in 50,200

Keren over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Keren: meaning, origin, and history

Horn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Keren means

Keren means “horn”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,014 girls were recorded with the name Keren between 1939 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 189 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,240 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,240 in 2020 to #2,632 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,736 in 2015 to #2,632 in 2025.

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.

How common is Keren?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,632
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Keren 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 2025 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 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Keren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kerens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Keren was born before 2005 — so the typical Keren is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,955
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (1,301).

Is Keren 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
−446
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,392
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−896
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.9%
Peak was 2019 (189)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,240
2019

Spellings of Keren

Keren is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 36.8% against Keren's 0.18%.

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 Keren is used

Across 2016–2025, Keren was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 3,571 girls, against 1 in 11,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

128 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 3,571
  2. 2Florida1 in 7,143
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 7,692
  4. 4Texas1 in 8,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 9,091
  6. 6New York1 in 10,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 10,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 11,111

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.

Keren around the world

Where Keren 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
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2007–2009
    #742
    in 2009
  • France
    1975–2025
    #2,341
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #1,786
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1945–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Keren

People whose public names include Keren, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Keren by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,632
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,392
Best rank ever
#1,240
2019
Peak year
2019
189 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,014
Count in 2025
66

Names similar to Keren

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

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Names with a curve like Keren

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Keren, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DevorahDalilaMalinaRochelMikaLainaYaelMeliaKarolineSanaNechamaZaida

Sibling names for Keren

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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