Meaning not yet researched.
Karan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,332 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,332 in 1995; #7,005 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,005 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,332.
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Karan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,332 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 78 (1995).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Karan, making it the 7,005th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,227 places from #5,778 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 16 boys named Karan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,332, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #4,350 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Karan in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #746, reached in 1956. That year also had the most girls given the name: 170. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #863 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karan in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 12 babies. In all, 4,962 US babies have been given the name, 70% of them girls and 30% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,316 babies named Karan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 148 US boys were named Karan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karen (990,774 babies since 1880), Karin (28,731 babies since 1880), Karyn (14,140 babies since 1880) and Caryn (12,182 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karaann are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karaann (16).
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 Karan 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 | — | — | 12 | #7,005 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,778 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,791 |
| 2022 | — | — | 9 | #8,650 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,668 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,684 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,208 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,662 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,431 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,350 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,974 |
| 2013 | — | — | 30 | #3,541 |
| 2012 | — | — | 34 | #3,273 |
| 2011 | — | — | 28 | #3,735 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,349 |
| 2009 | — | — | 47 | #2,639 |
| 2008 | — | — | 35 | #3,257 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,054 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,809 |
| 2005 | — | — | 63 | #1,997 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,154 | 73 | #1,737 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,760 | 68 | #1,772 |
| 2002 | — | — | 60 | #1,880 |
| 2001 | — | — | 77 | #1,569 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,239 | 50 | #2,033 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,455 | 73 | #1,539 |
| 1998 | — | — | 52 | #1,888 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,855 | 53 | #1,805 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,139 | 66 | #1,526 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,381 | 78 | #1,332 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,098 | 61 | #1,538 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,186 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,255 | 39 | #2,024 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,211 | 34 | #2,172 |
| 1990 | — | — | 37 | #2,031 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,702 | 22 | #2,844 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,014 | 21 | #2,730 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,525 | 17 | #3,017 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,750 | 17 | #2,950 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,676 | 7 | #5,455 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,835 | 13 | #3,368 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,985 | 8 | #4,710 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,788 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,403 | 6 | #5,877 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,368 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,341 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,044 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,952 | 5 | #5,476 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1966 | 80 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1965 | 91 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1964 | 101 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1963 | 85 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1962 | 115 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1961 | 112 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1960 | 110 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1959 | 152 | #833 | — | — |
| 1958 | 137 | #872 | — | — |
| 1957 | 164 | #787 | — | — |
| 1956 | 170 | #746 | — | — |
| 1955 | 156 | #766 | — | — |
| 1954 | 114 | #900 | — | — |
| 1953 | 109 | #902 | — | — |
| 1952 | 110 | #879 | — | — |
| 1951 | 98 | #930 | — | — |
| 1950 | 106 | #863 | — | — |
| 1949 | 95 | #912 | — | — |
| 1948 | 87 | #932 | — | — |
| 1947 | 98 | #895 | — | — |
| 1946 | 95 | #850 | — | — |
| 1945 | 59 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1944 | 73 | #895 | — | — |
| 1943 | 91 | #811 | — | — |
| 1942 | 84 | #833 | — | — |
| 1941 | 56 | #979 | — | — |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,623 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,447 | — | — |
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).