Meaning not yet researched.
Karon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,175 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,175 in 1996; #4,796 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,796 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,175.
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Karon: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,175 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 118 (2005).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Karon, making it the 4,796th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,236 places from #3,560 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 32 boys named Karon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,175, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 118, in 2005. For comparison, it was #2,265 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Karon in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #503, reached in 1948. That year also had the most girls given the name: 264. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #559 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karon in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 9,406 US babies have been given the name, 66% of them girls and 34% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,076 babies named Karon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 426 US boys were named Karon; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Karin (28,731 babies since 1880), Caron (4,212 babies since 1880), Karen (990,774 babies since 1880) and Karyn (14,140 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.
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 Karon 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 | — | — | 21 | #4,796 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,560 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,845 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,184 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,456 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,904 |
| 2019 | — | — | 55 | #2,448 |
| 2018 | — | — | 48 | #2,625 |
| 2017 | — | — | 63 | #2,161 |
| 2016 | — | — | 66 | #2,124 |
| 2015 | — | — | 59 | #2,265 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,387 |
| 2013 | — | — | 78 | #1,839 |
| 2012 | — | — | 68 | #2,039 |
| 2011 | — | — | 77 | #1,843 |
| 2010 | — | — | 111 | #1,477 |
| 2009 | — | — | 114 | #1,462 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,965 | 114 | #1,450 |
| 2007 | — | — | 111 | #1,455 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,108 | 116 | #1,383 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,356 | 118 | #1,299 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,447 | 87 | #1,537 |
| 2003 | — | — | 90 | #1,458 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,485 | 73 | #1,643 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,401 | 81 | #1,507 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,012 | 90 | #1,396 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,964 | 97 | #1,271 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,289 | 73 | #1,507 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,675 | 84 | #1,340 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,590 | 99 | #1,175 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,081 | 69 | #1,441 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,543 | 86 | #1,261 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,541 | 71 | #1,371 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,146 | 71 | #1,344 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,087 | 58 | #1,517 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,277 | 56 | #1,523 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,578 | 42 | #1,816 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,945 | 31 | #2,067 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,374 | 36 | #1,815 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,594 | 27 | #2,131 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,539 | 22 | #2,387 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,064 | 24 | #2,205 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,377 | 30 | #1,844 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,704 | 41 | #1,528 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,082 | 25 | #2,119 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,217 | 25 | #2,142 |
| 1979 | 32 | #2,760 | 34 | #1,690 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,233 | 28 | #1,850 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,074 | 29 | #1,808 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,316 | 20 | #2,291 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,791 | 18 | #2,401 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,321 | 9 | #3,704 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,811 | 11 | #3,124 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,248 | 14 | #2,597 |
| 1971 | 57 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1970 | 75 | #1,396 | 6 | #4,497 |
| 1969 | 73 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1968 | 93 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1967 | 77 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1966 | 102 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1965 | 130 | #876 | 6 | #3,722 |
| 1964 | 153 | #842 | — | — |
| 1963 | 160 | #824 | — | — |
| 1962 | 160 | #830 | — | — |
| 1961 | 188 | #759 | 7 | #3,517 |
| 1960 | 184 | #754 | — | — |
| 1959 | 164 | #798 | 10 | #2,734 |
| 1958 | 206 | #688 | 6 | #3,733 |
| 1957 | 218 | #666 | 9 | #2,917 |
| 1956 | 244 | #612 | — | — |
| 1955 | 207 | #649 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 1954 | 202 | #650 | 8 | #3,067 |
| 1953 | 172 | #690 | 6 | #3,617 |
| 1952 | 208 | #602 | — | — |
| 1951 | 188 | #636 | — | — |
| 1950 | 221 | #559 | — | — |
| 1949 | 203 | #582 | — | — |
| 1948 | 264 | #503 | 11 | #2,385 |
| 1947 | 236 | #552 | 6 | #3,556 |
| 1946 | 240 | #508 | — | — |
| 1945 | 180 | #545 | — | — |
| 1944 | 187 | #532 | — | — |
| 1943 | 203 | #528 | — | — |
| 1942 | 187 | #542 | — | — |
| 1941 | 128 | #627 | 6 | #3,319 |
| 1940 | 105 | #677 | 8 | #2,764 |
| 1939 | 69 | #843 | — | — |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,449 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,989 | 5 | #3,923 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,542 | — | — |
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).