How Many People Are Named Caryn?
people named Caryn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 31,336 people in the US has this name
Based on 12,182 babies named Caryn in Social Security records from 1939 to 2019, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
492 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 Caryn in English. Counting Caryn and these spellings together, about 56,028 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Caryn in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Caryn alive today is about 53 years old, and 59% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 45 and 63 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Caryn first appears in the records in 1939 and was given most often in 1965, to 492 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2019.
Babies given the name each year, 1939 to 2019
🏆 Rank History
Caryn has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #421, in 1965.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #421 (1965) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #534 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Caryn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Caryn were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,655 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Caryn was given 2.7 times as often in Illinois, 2.5 times in New York and 1.9 times in New Jersey.
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