Karsen
- #4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births
- #1,919 for boys in 2025, 81 births
- Given to boys 66.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 200 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,472since 1991
Karsen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #4,460 | 31 | #1,919 | 81 |
| 2024 | #4,114 | 35 | #1,833 | 88 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 | #1,518 | 116 |
| 2022 | #3,313 | 48 | #1,574 | 112 |
| 2021 | #3,735 | 40 | #1,360 | 136 |
| 2020 | #3,735 | 39 | #1,245 | 149 |
| 2019 | #3,611 | 42 | #1,080 | 185 |
| 2018 | #4,001 | 36 | #1,005 | 206 |
| 2017 | #3,192 | 50 | #1,073 | 184 |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 | #1,116 | 175 |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 | #1,075 | 184 |
| 2014 | #2,969 | 57 | #1,035 | 195 |
| 2013 | #2,936 | 57 | #1,203 | 149 |
| 2012 | #3,267 | 50 | #993 | 200 |
| 2011 | #3,173 | 52 | #1,078 | 173 |
| 2010 | #2,562 | 71 | #1,059 | 181 |
| 2009 | #2,730 | 66 | #1,298 | 135 |
| 2008 | #2,995 | 58 | #1,319 | 132 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 | #1,539 | 102 |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 | #1,460 | 105 |
| 2005 | #2,553 | 67 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #2,264 | 77 | #1,565 | 84 |
| 2003 | #1,885 | 97 | #1,936 | 60 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 | #1,832 | 62 |
| 2001 | #2,013 | 84 | #1,982 | 54 |
| 2000 | #1,885 | 90 | #2,136 | 47 |
| 1999 | #2,073 | 74 | #3,031 | 27 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #3,105 | 38 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #8,236 | 5 |
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First appearance
1991
The first year at least five boys were named Karsen! It came in at #8,236, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1992, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Karsen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 2,733 |
| Ohio | #855 | 9 | 1 in 5,837 |
| Texas | #1,908 | 8 | 1 in 21,881 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Karsen
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 674 spots since 2020 (#1,245 → #1,919)
- Biggest jump: 85 spots in 2012
- Biggest drop: 210 spots in 2013
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2012 at #993 (200 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2012
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,816
- Highest: 1 in 8,816 boys born in 2018 were named Karsen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,087 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #993 in 2012, was only 1 in 9,485 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 52.8% of all boys named Karsen (1,832) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2004
- Mostly girls until 2003, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 106 | #3,031 (1999) | #5,559 |
| 2000s | 852 | #1,298 (2009) | #1,688 |
| 2010s | 1,832 | #993 (2012) | #1,072 |
| 2020s | 682 | #1,245 (2020) | #1,575 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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