girls:
3.2k births since 1937
#3074 (46th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1935
#3575 (22nd percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1935
#4228 (45th percentile)
The name Caron is the #4,228 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,197 recorded births since 1935. This represents the 45.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,074 (46.2% percentile) for all time with 3,179 births since 1937. For boys, it ranks #3,575 (22.0% percentile) for all time with 1,018 births since 1935.
Caron first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1935 (1935 for boys and 1937 for girls). Birth data for Caron is available in 88 out of the 89 years between 1935 and 2023 (62 years for girls and 48 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Caron has been given predominantly to girls, with 75.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Caron were girls.
For girls, Caron reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 22.0% percentile (ranked #583) with 83 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 83 births per million (ranked 22.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
For boys, Caron reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #818) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 33 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Caron ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 16.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caron".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Caron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.4% confident that Caron is pronounced as KEH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-RAWN, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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