Karyn
The girl's name Karyn has been in the national records since 1932, with 14,140 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 13,000 Karyns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Karyn boys named Karyn
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,140
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 394th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1932
- Girls / boys
- 14,135 / 5
How old the living Karyns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,140 babies given the name since 1932, about 13,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 270 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
A 20th-century spelling variant of Karen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Karyns
- Karyn Parsons (born 1966)American actress, author, and comedian
- Karyn Kusama (born 1968)American film director
- Karyn Kupcinet (1941–1963)American actress
- Karyn White (born 1965)American singer
People named Karyn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Karyn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Karyn is most concentrated in Massachusetts (2.6×), Illinois (2.6×), Michigan (1.8×), New Jersey (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Karyn peaked:
Karyn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Karyn | 429 | 77th |
| Scotland girls | Karyn | 232 | 231st |
| France girls | Karyn | 190 | 810th |
| Ireland girls | Karyn | 53 | 420th |
| England and Wales girls | Karyn | 16 | 2,350th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Karyn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.