Karan
Karan is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 746th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1956170 births
- Best rank
- #746in 1956
- Since 1936
- 4,950people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,450 girls have been named Karan in the United States since 1936, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 170 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 170 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 38%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Karan is used for both sexes: 30% of its bearers are boys (1,500), most of them born around 1995.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1956, its biggest year
Karan was the 746th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Karan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sheryllpeak 1955
- Pamellapeak 1954
- Lynnepeak 1960
- Karenpeak 1957
- Suzanpeak 1955
- Dianepeak 1955
- Dremapeak 1959
- Lynpeak 1957
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.