How Many People Are Named Keren?

4,871

people named Keren are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 70,167 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,014 babies named Keren in Social Security records from 1939 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,791

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,131

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Peak Year

2019

189 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Hebrew
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Means "horn" or "ray of light" in Hebrew.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Keren in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Keren alive today is about 24 years old, and 70% are under 30. Half of them were between 10 and 34 in 2025.

Under 30 3,392
69.6%
30 to 59 1,225
25.1%
60 and over 254
5.2%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Keren first appears in the records in 1939 and was given most often in 2019, to 189 babies. In 2025, 66 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1939 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Keren has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,240, in 2019 to 2020. In 2025 it ranked #2,632.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,632
Best rank#1,240 (2019 to 2020)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,655 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Keren alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Keren were born in California than in any other state: about 734 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Keren was given 2.7 times as often in New York, 2.5 times in Maryland and 2.2 times in Florida.

California 734
Texas 648
New York 502
Florida 332
Maryland 115
New Jersey 114
North Carolina 93
Virginia 73
Georgia 68
Massachusetts 26
Tennessee 20
Illinois 19
Louisiana 17
Arizona 17
Indiana 12
District of Columbia 10
Colorado 6
Missouri 5
Ohio 5
South Carolina 5

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