Caryn

Where Caryn comes from

A 20th-century spelling variant of Karen.
— Wiktionary's entry for Caryn
  • Ancient Greek
Along the way
  1. 1939
    First appearance
    #3,782 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1965
    Peak, #421
    492 babies named Caryn — more than any year before or since.
  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.