Keren
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 184 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,014since 1939
Keren over time
Rank among girls' names. Keren has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,607 | 66 |
| 2024 | #2,178 | 87 |
| 2023 | #1,946 | 101 |
| 2022 | #2,087 | 92 |
| 2021 | #1,584 | 132 |
| 2020 | #1,236 | 184 |
| 2019 | #1,239 | 189 |
| 2018 | #1,650 | 128 |
| 2017 | #1,917 | 105 |
| 2016 | #1,636 | 133 |
| 2015 | #1,731 | 121 |
| 2014 | #1,804 | 113 |
| 2013 | #1,807 | 113 |
| 2012 | #1,705 | 122 |
| 2011 | #1,554 | 141 |
| 2010 | #1,593 | 136 |
| 2009 | #1,660 | 134 |
| 2008 | #1,486 | 157 |
| 2007 | #1,770 | 121 |
| 2006 | #1,691 | 124 |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 |
| 2004 | #1,811 | 105 |
| 2003 | #1,605 | 120 |
| 2002 | #1,844 | 97 |
| 2001 | #1,861 | 94 |
| 2000 | #1,744 | 100 |
| 1999 | #1,999 | 78 |
| 1998 | #1,830 | 84 |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 |
| 1996 | #1,898 | 76 |
| 1995 | #2,125 | 63 |
| 1994 | #2,167 | 62 |
| 1993 | #2,045 | 67 |
| 1992 | #2,105 | 64 |
| 1991 | #2,092 | 64 |
| 1990 | #2,101 | 62 |
| 1989 | #2,194 | 55 |
| 1988 | #2,251 | 50 |
| 1987 | #2,129 | 51 |
| 1986 | #1,980 | 55 |
| 1985 | #2,283 | 44 |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 |
| 1982 | #2,288 | 43 |
| 1981 | #2,265 | 44 |
| 1980 | #2,440 | 39 |
| 1979 | #2,112 | 47 |
| 1978 | #1,915 | 51 |
| 1977 | #2,091 | 45 |
| 1976 | #1,936 | 46 |
| 1975 | #2,023 | 43 |
| 1974 | #1,961 | 43 |
| 1973 | #3,342 | 19 |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 |
| 1971 | #3,789 | 16 |
| 1970 | #2,856 | 24 |
| 1969 | #4,198 | 12 |
| 1968 | #2,874 | 20 |
| 1967 | #3,211 | 16 |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1965 | #3,050 | 17 |
| 1964 | #2,412 | 26 |
| 1963 | #1,683 | 46 |
| 1962 | #2,922 | 18 |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #2,869 | 17 |
| 1958 | #3,085 | 15 |
| 1957 | #2,486 | 21 |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 |
| 1951 | #3,106 | 12 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
| 1948 | #3,350 | 10 |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 |
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| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Keren! It came in at #4,250, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939–1941, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Keren is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#632 · 1 in 2,642
- North Carolina#679 · 1 in 3,356
- Florida#747 · 1 in 4,023
- Virginia#759 · 1 in 3,793
- New York#911 · 1 in 4,974
Best ever in a state: #209 in District of Columbia, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #632 | 7 | 1 in 2,642 |
| North Carolina | #679 | 13 | 1 in 3,356 |
| Florida | #747 | 20 | 1 in 4,023 |
| Virginia | #759 | 9 | 1 in 3,793 |
| New York | #911 | 16 | 1 in 4,974 |
| New Jersey | #933 | 7 | 1 in 4,977 |
| Missouri | #937 | 5 | 1 in 4,896 |
| California | #1,063 | 26 | 1 in 6,701 |
| Texas | #1,084 | 24 | 1 in 6,373 |
| Tennessee | #1,101 | 5 | 1 in 6,073 |
| Georgia | #1,279 | 6 | 1 in 7,415 |
| Ohio | #1,443 | 5 | 1 in 9,580 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Keren
- 429 spots since 2024 (#2,178 → #2,607)
- 1,371 spots since 2020 (#1,236 → #2,607)
- 876 spots since 2015 (#1,731 → #2,607)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 2020 at #1,236 (184 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,786 girls born in 2020 were named Keren (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.9% of all girls named Keren (1,301) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,250 (1939) | #4,250 |
| 1940s | 54 | #2,817 (1942) | #3,577 |
| 1950s | 132 | #2,486 (1957) | #3,298 |
| 1960s | 196 | #1,683 (1963) | #3,168 |
| 1970s | 355 | #1,915 (1978) | #2,509 |
| 1980s | 470 | #1,980 (1986) | #2,222 |
| 1990s | 685 | #1,830 (1998) | #2,050 |
| 2000s | 1,154 | #1,486 (2008) | #1,737 |
| 2010s | 1,301 | #1,239 (2019) | #1,664 |
| 2020s | 662 | #1,236 (2020) | #1,940 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Keren in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 8,786 of them was named Keren, which outranked 92.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,231Kacey185
- #1,231Rita185
- #1,231Tegan185
- #1,236Keren184
- #1,236Amethyst184
- #1,236Elayna184
- #1,236Imogen184
- #1,241Bryleigh183
- #1,241Emberlynn183
- #1,241Lincoln183
Tied with 4 names at #1,236; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.