Meaning not yet researched.
Keren: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,240 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,240 in 2020; #2,632 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keren in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,632 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,240.
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Keren: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,240 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 189 (2019).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Keren, making it the 2,632nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 446 places from #2,186 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 87 girls named Keren in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,240, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 189, in 2019. For comparison, it was #1,736 in 2015 and #5,008 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keren in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1939 with 5 babies. In all, 5,014 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,301 babies named Keren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,217 US girls were named Keren; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 189. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keren ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #786 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kieran (19,218 babies since 1880), Kiran (5,041 babies since 1880), Kyron (4,561 babies since 1880) and Kyren (4,085 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kerrin, Keyron and Kerron are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Kerrin (1,014), Keyron (247), Kerron (230), Kerryn (187), Kyrene (103), Keyren (69), Keyrin (66), Kerion (60), Kyrien (40), Kyreon (16), Kyrein (16), Kerren (15), and more.
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 Keren in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 6 | #786 | #741 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,363 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,618 | #1,087 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,306 | #1,251 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 2022 | 92 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 2020 | 184 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 2019 | 189 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,653 | — | — |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 2016 | 133 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 2015 | 121 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 2013 | 113 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 2011 | 141 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 2007 | 121 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,696 | — | — |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 2003 | 120 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 2001 | 94 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1996 | 76 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1995 | 63 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,118 | — | — |
| 1991 | 64 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,114 | — | — |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,212 | — | — |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,130 | — | — |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,910 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,262 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,890 | — | — |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,103 | — | — |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,428 | — | — |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,164 | — | — |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,017 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,866 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,202 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,008 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,636 | — | — |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,474 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,536 | — | — |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,586 | — | — |
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).