Karen

Other ways to spell Karen

10 other spellings sound the same in the SSA's records.

Sounds like
/kˈæɹən/

How the espeak speech engine reads Karen. Hear it said

Counted as one name
#1,235Up 44 from #1,279

For girls in 2025 when every name’s spellings are grouped. On its own, Karen is #1,279.

Spellings given to girls in 2025: 175 births in all

  1. #1,279Karen175

Also given in other years or to boys: Caren, Karon, Karan, Caron, Karren, Carron, Karron, Carren, Caran, Karran.

Close, but counted apart

These sound a little different to the speech engine, so each is counted on its own.

How spellings are grouped: every name in the SSA’s records was read aloud by espeak, an open-source speech engine, and spellings with the same reading (ignoring stress and vowel length) are counted together. It reads the letters, not what parents meant, so some calls will be off.