Keren
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Shortened form of the Biblical name Keren-happuch, borne by the third of Job’s daughters (Job 42:14)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Keren is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common given name.
- IEIreland≈1 in 202as Karen(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 210as Karen
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 231as Karen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Keren itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #83 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 662 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)
882,576 named Karen, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Karel
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Karen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Shortened form of the Biblical name Keren-happuch, borne by the third of Job’s daughters (Job 42:14). The name meant ‘horn of eye-paint’ in Hebrew.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Keren counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #36 | 882,576as Karen | 1 in 377 | 881K | Karen | 662 |
| GB United Kingdom | #33 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 210 | 6 | Karen | 389 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 208,144as Karel | 1 in 51 | 208K | — | 2 |
| EG Egypt | #306 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 694 | — | Karen | 67 |
| PH Philippines | #117 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 749 | — | Karen | 198 |
| AU Australia | #29 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 237 | 5 | Karen | 293 |
| IE Ireland | #22 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 202 | — | Karen | 165 |
| NZ New Zealand | #27 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | 14 | Karen | 177 |
882,576 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); MVČR — living population register 2017; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Keren is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hebrew, Hebrew: 'horn'
as a nameAfrican Names
Abundancia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
horn.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Dutch, to turn
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In lad, third-person plural present indicative of kerer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Keren Woodwardb. 1961GBBritish singer
- Keren Morb. 1964ILIsraeli actress and comedian
- Keren Yedayab. 1972ILIsraeli film director and screenwriter
- Keren Annb. 1974ILIsraeli-Dutch singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and audio engineer
- Keren Cytterb. 1977ILIsraeli artist (born 1977)
- Keren Hadarb. 1977ILIsraeli singer
- Keren Pelesb. 1979ILIsraeli singer
- Keren Tendlerb. 1979ILIsraeli air force officer
- Keren Bergerb. 1980ILIsraeli actress
- Keren Shlomob. 1988ILIsraeli female tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.6K | #3,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 103 | #3,610 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 66 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #3,111 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1976 | 14 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2013 | 3 | #816 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1986 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Keren come from?
- Shortened form of the Biblical name Keren-happuch, borne by the third of Job’s daughters (Job 42:14). The name meant ‘horn of eye-paint’ in Hebrew. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Keren a male or female name?
- Keren is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Keren mean?
- Recorded meaning: Shortened form of the Biblical name Keren-happuch, borne by the third of Job’s daughters (Job 42:14).
- In which country does Keren have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 883 thousand people named Karen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Keren most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Keren itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 51 people named Karel.
- How common is the name Keren?
- In the United States, the national register counted 882,576 people named Karen in 2020, about 1 in 377 residents.
- How common is Keren compared with other names?
- In the United States, Keren is the 36th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kerenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Keren” — the 36th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.