Kéren
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Kéren is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 5,666 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: ° 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.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 22K
- GYGuyana1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
5,666 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Keren in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kéren 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 | — | 5,666 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | Keren | 43 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,724 | 1 in 45K | 4.7K | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 800 | 1 in 6.4K | 800 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 341 | 1 in 147K | 341 | — | 6 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #797 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Keren | 11 |
| GY Guyana | — | 21 | 1 in 36K | 21 | — | — |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 5 | — | 3 |
5,666 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kéren mean, and where does it 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 and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 1 other source.
- Is Kéren a male or female name?
- Kéren 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Kéren?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Kéren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keren. After it come Brazil, Costa Rica, Spain and Congo - Kinshasa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kéren most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kéren is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 6.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kéren?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,666 people named Kéren in 2020, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
- How common is Kéren compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Kéren is the 797th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kéren?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A9renThe 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, “Kéren” — ranked 3610th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.