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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
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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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#641 · 1 in 3,105
- Tennessee#738 · 1 in 4,480
- Minnesota#803 · 1 in 5,028
- Indiana#940 · 1 in 6,551
- Pennsylvania#995 · 1 in 7,922
Best ever in a state: #140 in North Dakota, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #641 | 7 | 1 in 3,105 |
| Tennessee | #738 | 8 | 1 in 4,480 |
| Minnesota | #803 | 5 | 1 in 5,028 |
| Indiana | #940 | 5 | 1 in 6,551 |
| Pennsylvania | #995 | 7 | 1 in 7,922 |
| North Carolina | #1,015 | 7 | 1 in 7,291 |
| Florida | #1,072 | 11 | 1 in 8,433 |
| Texas | #1,588 | 10 | 1 in 17,112 |
| California | #2,214 | 6 | 1 in 31,563 |
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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
- 86 spots since 2024 (#1,833 → #1,919)
- 674 spots since 2020 (#1,245 → #1,919)
- 844 spots since 2015 (#1,075 → #1,919)
- Biggest jump: 85 spots in 2012 (#1,078 → #993)
- Biggest drop: 210 spots in 2013 (#993 → #1,203)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2012 at #993 (200 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2012
- 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
- 52.8% of all boys named Karsen (1,832) were born in this decade
- 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.
Karsen in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 41,022 of them was named Karsen, which outranked 78.9% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,678Zamirah41
- #3,678Zanyla41
- #3,678Zephyr41
- #3,735Karsen40
- #3,735Acadia40
- #3,735Alaysha40
- #3,735Aleyza40
- #3,801Aarvi39
- #3,801Aislin39
- #3,801Aleeah39
Tied with 65 names at #3,735; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 12,864 of them was named Karsen, which outranked 90.4% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,349Sunny137
- #1,349Tyrone137
- #1,349Zeppelin137
- #1,360Karsen136
- #1,360Gio136
- #1,360Haven136
- #1,360Milton136
- #1,365Braxtyn135
- #1,365Cru135
- #1,365Deangelo135
Tied with 4 names at #1,360; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.