Caren
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Karen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caren is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 11K
- COColombia≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Karen.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caren 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Caren | 51 |
| US United States | — | 9,317 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Caren | 189 |
| BR Brazil | — | 8,266 | 1 in 26K | 11K | Caren | 96 |
| CO Colombia | #988 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Caren | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 4 | Caren | 25 |
| HN Honduras | #821 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Caren | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | #375 | 545 | 1 in 6.2K | 545 | Caren | 22 |
| GY Guyana | — | 39 | 1 in 19K | 39 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Caren is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, first/third-person plural conditional colloquial of caru
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, a female given name, a less common variant of Karen
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)
- Caren Marsh Dollb. 1919USactress, dancer, last surviving actress from the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz"
- Caren Kayeb. 1951USactress
- Caren Metschuckb. 1963DEEast German swimmer
- Caren Kemnerb. 1965USformer American volleyball player and current coach
- Caren Jungjohannb. 1967DEfield hockey player
- Caren Miosgab. 1969DEGerman journalist and television presenter
- Caren Lissnerb. 1972USnovelist
- Caren Layb. 1972DEGerman politician
- Caren Gussoffb. 1973USAmerican writer
- Caren Pistoriusb. 1990ZASouth African actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 11K | #2,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.3K | #2,579 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 8.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.2K | #1,944 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 545 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 514 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 91 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63 | #2,579 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #1,944 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 39 | #555 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Caren a male or female name?
- Caren 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 Caren mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, a less common spelling of Karen. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Caren?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Caren?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Catherine and Kathy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Caren have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Caren in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caren.
- Where is Caren most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caren is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 6.2 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Caren?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,317 people named Caren in 2020, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Caren compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Caren is the 375th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carenThe 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, “Caren” — the 375th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.