Karon

Where Karon comes from

The dictionaries list Karon as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #4,218 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1948
    Peak, #503
    264 babies named Karon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #876.
  4. 1978
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Karon turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.