Karsen
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Karsen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 87K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.5M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
3,830 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karsen 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 | — | 3,830 | 1 in 87K | 2.4K | Karsen | 181 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 1 | Karsen | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | listed | Karsen | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Karsen | 15 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Karsen | 15 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
| BB Barbados | #851 | — | — | — | Karsen | 2 |
3,830 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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)
Karsen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of karse
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)
- Karsen Leungb. 1990CACanadian lacrosse 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 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 185 | #103,399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 182 | #99,378 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 166 | #100,663 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Is Karsen a male or female name?
- Karsen is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Karsen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Karsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karsen.
- Where is Karsen most common?
- Karsen is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 87 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karsen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,830 people named Karsen in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Karsen compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Karsen is the 851st most common given name of 1,425 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/karsenThe 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, “Karsen” — the 851st most common given name in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.