How rare is the name Caryn?

11,223 people in the United States have the first name Caryn, about 1 in 26,912. It ranks #2,298 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CARYN

#2,298

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,223
About
1 in 26,912
This common or more
79.3%
Who bears it

Of the 11,223 people named Caryn, 86.8% reported their origin as White, 4.8% as Black and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Caryn peaked in 1965, when 492 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19392019
Peak year
1965
Births that year
492
In 2019
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 12,182 babies have been given the name since 1939. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Caryn by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #958. The largest share of babies named Caryn, 42.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#11,2936
1940s#2,043501
1950s#1,0842,265
1960s#9583,351
1970s#1,0133,071
1980s#1,4981,874
1990s#3,238749
2000s#8,243266
2010s#16,84999
Silent Generation 1928–451.1%
Baby boom 1946–6434%
Generation X 1965–8042.4%
Millennials 1981–9618.3%
Generation Z 1997–123.7%
2013 and later0.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Caryn is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Caryn has been most common in Illinois (2.9×), New York (2.6×), and New Jersey (2×), and least common in North Carolina (0.13×).

9,154 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Caryn

#2,296 Carlene · 11,283#2,297 Trinidad · 11,227#2,299 Karlee · 11,216#2,300 Angelita · 11,209

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Caryn, most common first.

#2,579 Caren · 9,317#4,123 Carin · 4,666#4,570 Caron · 4,026#35,436 Caran · 227#37,508 Caroyn · 208#43,791 Carynn · 160#50,640 Carryn · 118

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