Caryn

Where Caryn comes from

A 20th-century spelling variant of Karen.
— Wiktionary's entry for Caryn
  • Ancient Greek
Caryn through the years
  1. 1939
    First appearance
    #3,782 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Peak, #421
    492 babies named Caryn, the most in any year.
  3. 1967
    Caryn Kadavy born
    figure skater
  4. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #712.
  5. 1982
    Caryn Davies born
    American rower
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Caryn Davies · American rower, born 1982
  • Caryn Agyeman Prempeh · Ghanaian medical practitioner
  • Caryn Kadavy · figure skater, born 1967
  • Caryn James · American journalist, writer and university professor, born 2000
  • Caryn Navy · American mathematician and computer scientist, born 1953

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.