Karen Girl Name

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The name Karen is of Scandinavian origin, and is a variation of Catherine. The table below indicates the number of times the name Karen has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Karen**
Use of the Name Karen for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
968,529	640,505	70,343	22,144	11,021	4,464	2,143

The table below indicates the number of times the name Karen has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Karen first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Karen**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881	786	6
1882
1883
1884
1885	715	10
1886	802	9
1887	823	9
1888
1889	872	10
1890	707	15
1891
1892	985	10
1893
1894	924	12
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906	940	16
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912	966	28
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918	966	56
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924	987	60
1925
1926	944	63
1927
1928	817	78
1929	792	79
1930	684	101
1931	534	154
1932	366	305
1933	283	454
1934	257	589
1935	172	1,096
1936	132	1,721
1937	113	2,231
1938	50	4,508
1939	39	5,545
1940	34	7,287
1941	19	10,828	969	44
1942	16	15,391	802	65
1943	15	16,796	899	55
1944	16	15,925	927	48
1945	16	15,692	870	52
1946	15	19,618
1947	13	21,619
1948	12	21,965
1949	11	22,438
1950	12	24,133
1951	8	27,953
1952	8	28,962
1953	9	29,808	941	58
1954	8	32,444
1955	8	33,192
1956	7	40,039	882	72
1957	5	40,582	863	76
1958	4	38,439	936	66
1959	4	36,758	843	81
1960	4	36,375	894	72
1961	5	34,668	857	79
1962	4	35,172	889	74
1963	4	32,487	830	83
1964	4	30,229	789	91
1965	3	32,875	822	81
1966	5	25,438	916	63
1967	6	21,544	990	54
1968	9	19,557
1969	13	17,620	891	74
1970	12	16,703
1971	15	14,214
1972	21	11,197
1973	23	9,366
1974	26	8,648
1975	27	8,162
1976	31	7,496
1977	32	7,434
1978	39	6,366
1979	46	5,601
1980	54	5,049
1981	64	4,534
1982	69	4,142
1983	77	3,785
1984	81	3,535
1985	87	3,133
1986	100	2,791
1987	107	2,577
1988	112	2,560
1989	111	2,750
1990	120	2,706
1991	122	2,595
1992	122	2,754
1993	116	2,807
1994	128	2,481
1995	141	2,274
1996	134	2,395
1997	143	2,221
1998	152	2,065
1999	148	2,168
2000	154	2,164
2001	148	2,181
2002	150	2,212
2003	141	2,321
2004	154	2,143
Totals:		968,529		1,288

During the last 125 years, parents have used Karen as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Karen appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 90 times during the last 125 years.

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