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How popular is the name Karan?
Births per year, rank history and how many Karans are alive today.
Karan (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 2664th in 2025 and given to 8 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 1996, when 61 babies were given the name, the 365th most popular that year. It has declined since 1996; the 2025 figure is roughly 13% of its peak. Karan is one spelling of a name also recorded as Cairon and Kairon; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Karan you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Karans born in England and Wales are between 14 and 30, and there are at least 1,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Karan - on average, only one in every 190 such rooms contains a Karan.
How many babies are named Karan each year?
Includes all spellings: Karan, Cairon, Kairon. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Karan spelling rank?
Where does the Cairon spelling rank?
Where does the Kairon spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Karan most popular?
Karan peaked in 2009, when 98 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Karan?
At least 1,600 people named Karan in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Karan?
Most living Karans are between 14 and 30; the most common age is about 16.
Is Karan becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2009 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.