Caren
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 11 babies a year in the US.
Caren by the numbers
Caren was given to 11 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 388 babies in 1957, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Caren
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Caren. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Caren
Names that are said the same way as Caren, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Karenpure; a form of Catherine559 in the US (2017)
- Karinpure; a form of Karen30 in the US (2017)
- Karynpure; a form of Karen or Carina23 in the US (2017)
- Kareengenerous; a form of Karim11 in the US (2017)
- Karinnepure; a form of Karen or Karin7 in the US (2017)
- Karinepure; a form of Katherine5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Caren
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