Meaning not yet researched.
Caron: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,924 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,924 in 2005; #12,361 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caron in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,361 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,924.
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Caron: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,924 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 71 (2008).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Caron, making it the 12,361st most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,495 places from #7,866 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 10 boys named Caron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,924, reached in 2005. The most boys given the name in a single year was 71, in 2008. For comparison, it was #7,147 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Caron in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #742, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 171. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,630 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caron in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1935 with 5 babies. In all, 4,212 US babies have been given the name, 75% of them girls and 25% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,019 babies named Caron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 134 US boys were named Caron; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Caren (9,560 babies since 1880), Karon (9,406 babies since 1880), Karen (990,774 babies since 1880) and Karin (28,731 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caron in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #7,866 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,831 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #7,856 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,389 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,496 |
| 2019 | — | — | 19 | #4,992 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #4,953 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,379 |
| 2016 | — | — | 19 | #4,978 |
| 2015 | — | — | 11 | #7,147 |
| 2014 | — | — | 26 | #3,919 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,879 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,310 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,057 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,688 |
| 2009 | — | — | 43 | #2,809 |
| 2008 | — | — | 71 | #1,985 |
| 2007 | — | — | 70 | #2,000 |
| 2006 | — | — | 47 | #2,546 |
| 2005 | — | — | 66 | #1,924 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,018 | 62 | #1,957 |
| 2003 | — | — | 44 | #2,398 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,320 | 39 | #2,512 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,262 | 23 | #3,630 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,625 |
| 1999 | — | — | 12 | #5,357 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,723 | 20 | #3,610 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,085 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,934 | 12 | #4,916 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,552 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,687 | 9 | #5,930 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,159 | 14 | #4,255 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,922 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,707 | 8 | #6,027 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,328 | 9 | #5,439 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,887 | 14 | #3,835 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,405 | 11 | #4,195 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,977 | 11 | #4,004 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,079 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,019 | 7 | #5,047 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,831 | 7 | #5,000 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,025 | 11 | #3,724 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,857 | 13 | #3,242 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,941 | 9 | #4,185 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,626 | 9 | #4,122 |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,315 | 8 | #4,205 |
| 1977 | 115 | #1,110 | 7 | #4,656 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,102 | 6 | #4,707 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1969 | 42 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 1966 | 79 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1965 | 84 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1964 | 84 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1963 | 86 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1962 | 107 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1961 | 109 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1960 | 117 | #995 | — | — |
| 1959 | 110 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1958 | 118 | #951 | — | — |
| 1957 | 138 | #865 | — | — |
| 1956 | 171 | #742 | — | — |
| 1955 | 123 | #876 | — | — |
| 1954 | 113 | #905 | 5 | #3,897 |
| 1953 | 86 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1951 | 39 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1948 | 53 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1946 | 49 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1945 | 41 | #1,249 | — | — |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1943 | 64 | #992 | — | — |
| 1942 | 38 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,726 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).