Karan

Girls' name · Mid-century · Sanskrit origin

Living in the US: ~4,300 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025: 12 4,962 since 1880
Typical age: 60 years, median

Karan popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1936–2004. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1956: 170 births recorded as Karan. 1936 is the earliest year with at least five recorded births. Karan has ranked inside the top 1,000 in 18 years.

Over ten years the count has fallen 48%.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Karan?

About 4,300 people named Karan are alive in the United States today. That is out of 4,962 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 2,800 women and 1,500 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Karan?

Median age among living Karans: 60. More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Karan a mid-century name.

Your Karan

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Karan a boy's or a girl's name?

Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Across the whole record, 69.5% of births under the name were girls. The dominant sex is not the same at the end of the record as at the start.

Karan in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Karan ranked #2,664 in 2025 on 8 births. That is 56% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Karan comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from Sanskrit.

See how Sanskrit names are used in American and British births on the Sanskrit names page.

Notable people named Karan

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Karan Johar	Indian film director and producer	1972	51
Karan Brar	American actor	1999	35
Karan Singh Grover	Indian model, television and film actor	1982	32
Karan Singh	Indian politician	1931	26
Karan Soni	Indian-American actor	1989	23
Karan Ashley	American actress	1975	16
Karan Wahi	Indian actor	1984	16
Karan Kundrra	Indian actor	1984	15