first name
KARYN
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,141 people named Karyn, 83.6% reported their origin as White, 7.2% as Black and 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Karyn peaked in 1964, when 607 babies got the name.
At least 14,140 babies have been given the name since 1932. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Karyn by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #833. The largest share of babies named Karyn, 43.9%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Karyn is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Karyn has been most common in Massachusetts (2.6×), Illinois (2.6×), and Michigan (1.8×), and least common in North Carolina (0.23×).
10,505 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.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Karyn, most common first.
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