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The table below indicates the number of times the name Karen has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Karen**
Use of the Name Karen for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
1,288	966	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Karen has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Karen first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1881, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Karen**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1881			786	6
1882
1883
1884
1885			715	10
1886			802	9
1887			823	9
1888
1889			872	10
1890			707	15
1891
1892			985	10
1893
1894			924	12
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906			940	16
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912			966	28
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918			966	56
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924			987	60
1925
1926			944	63
1927
1928			817	78
1929			792	79
1930			684	101
1931			534	154
1932			366	305
1933			283	454
1934			257	589
1935			172	1,096
1936			132	1,721
1937			113	2,231
1938			50	4,508
1939			39	5,545
1940			34	7,287
1941	969	44	19	10,828
1942	802	65	16	15,391
1943	899	55	15	16,796
1944	927	48	16	15,925
1945	870	52	16	15,692
1946			15	19,618
1947			13	21,619
1948			12	21,965
1949			11	22,438
1950			12	24,133
1951			8	27,953
1952			8	28,962
1953	941	58	9	29,808
1954			8	32,444
1955			8	33,192
1956	882	72	7	40,039
1957	863	76	5	40,582
1958	936	66	4	38,439
1959	843	81	4	36,758
1960	894	72	4	36,375
1961	857	79	5	34,668
1962	889	74	4	35,172
1963	830	83	4	32,487
1964	789	91	4	30,229
1965	822	81	3	32,875
1966	916	63	5	25,438
1967	990	54	6	21,544
1968			9	19,557
1969	891	74	13	17,620
1970			12	16,703
1971			15	14,214
1972			21	11,197
1973			23	9,366
1974			26	8,648
1975			27	8,162
1976			31	7,496
1977			32	7,434
1978			39	6,366
1979			46	5,601
1980			54	5,049
1981			64	4,534
1982			69	4,142
1983			77	3,785
1984			81	3,535
1985			87	3,133
1986			100	2,791
1987			107	2,577
1988			112	2,560
1989			111	2,750
1990			120	2,706
1991			122	2,595
1992			122	2,754
1993			116	2,807
1994			128	2,481
1995			141	2,274
1996			134	2,395
1997			143	2,221
1998			152	2,065
1999			148	2,168
2000			154	2,164
2001			148	2,181
2002			150	2,212
2003			141	2,321
2004			154	2,143
Totals:		1,288		968,529

During the last 125 years, parents have used Karen as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Karen appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 19 times during the last 125 years.

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