Caron
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #12,761 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 75.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1956 · 171 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,179since 1937
Caron over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,765 | 10 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,738 | 10 | |
| 2022 | — | #7,768 | 10 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,335 | 13 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,451 | 16 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,951 | 19 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,918 | 19 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,943 | 19 | |
| 2015 | — | #7,066 | 11 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,891 | 26 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,864 | 26 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,046 | 37 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,682 | 45 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,800 | 43 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,981 | 71 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,995 | 70 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,542 | 47 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,922 | 66 | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,953 | 62 |
| 2003 | — | #2,392 | 44 | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | — | #5,588 | 12 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,317 | 12 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | — | #4,059 | 16 | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #3,017 | 29 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #1,936 | 55 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #1,623 | 69 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #1,314 | 91 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #1,110 | 115 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #2,932 | 25 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,196 | 38 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,100 | 39 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,516 | 66 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,653 | 56 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,927 | 42 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,708 | 47 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,399 | 62 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,209 | 79 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,168 | 84 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,204 | 84 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,180 | 86 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,043 | 107 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,049 | 109 | — | |
| 1960 | #993 | 117 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,005 | 110 | — | |
| 1958 | #951 | 118 | — | |
| 1957 | #865 | 138 | — | |
| 1956 | #742 | 171 | — | |
| 1955 | #876 | 123 | — | |
| 1954 | #905 | 113 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #1,040 | 86 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,028 | 83 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,505 | 39 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,626 | 33 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,323 | 48 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,250 | 53 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,377 | 45 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,229 | 49 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,249 | 41 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,315 | 37 | — | |
| 1943 | #992 | 64 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,300 | 38 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,222 | 38 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,374 | 30 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,125 | 15 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,340 | 13 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
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| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Caron! It came in at #4,255, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Caron is popular in 1940
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#700 · 1 in 7,513
Best ever in a state: #324 in Massachusetts, 1956.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #700 | 8 | 1 in 7,513 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Caron
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2004
- Biggest jump: 308 spots in 1943 (#1,300 → #992)
- Biggest drop: 323 spots in 1944 (#992 → #1,315)
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1956 at #742 (171 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1954–1958
- Highest: 1 in 11,741 girls born in 1956 were named Caron (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 262,321 girls born in 2004 (0.00%)
- 31.9% of all girls named Caron (1,014) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 33 | #2,125 (1939) | #2,907 |
| 1940s | 443 | #992 (1943) | #1,263 |
| 1950s | 1,014 | #742 (1956) | #1,054 |
| 1960s | 817 | #993 (1960) | #1,288 |
| 1970s | 565 | #1,110 (1977) | #1,902 |
| 1980s | 214 | #1,936 (1980) | #4,735 |
| 1990s | 69 | #5,286 (1990) | #7,973 |
| 2000s | 24 | #10,102 (2001) | #11,324 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Caron in 1940
Top girls' names in 1940
More about 1940
girls
1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 38,118 of them was named Caron, which outranked 72.7% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,347Tommy31
- #1,347Tracy31
- #1,347Verdie31
- #1,374Caron30
- #1,374Blanca30
- #1,374Christy30
- #1,374Clair30
- #1,404Adrian29
- #1,404Albina29
- #1,404Ardelle29
Tied with 29 names at #1,374; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.