How Many People Are Named Caren?
people named Caren are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 42,117 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,560 babies named Caren in Social Security records from 1925 to 2019, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
387 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of KAREN (1).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Caren in English. Counting Caren and these spellings together, about 56,028 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Caren in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Caren alive today is about 57 years old, and 53% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 48 and 69 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Caren first appears in the records in 1925 and was given most often in 1957, to 387 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2019.
Babies given the name each year, 1925 to 2019
🏆 Rank History
Caren has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #485, in 1957.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #485 (1957) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #551 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Caren alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Caren were born in California than in any other state: about 1,170 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Caren was given 2.4 times as often in New York, 2.2 times in California and 2 times in New Jersey.
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