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Keren

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Keren is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 87 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
870.01% of girls
Peak year
2019189 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1939
4,946people given the name
Babies named Keren, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

4,946 girls have been named Keren in the United States since 1939, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 189 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 26%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Keren
1930s5
1940s54
1950s132
1960s196
1970s355
1980s470
1990s685
2000s1,153
2010s1,301
2020s595

In 2019, its biggest year

Keren was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Keren

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.