‘Karen’ falls 171 spots on list of popular baby names, but ‘Kamala’ is rising
- Only 325 newborn girls were named Karen in the US last year, down from 439 in 2019
- The moniker has become associated with entitled white women who ‘want to speak to the manager’
No one wants to name their baby girl Karen any more.
The name has tanked in popularity over the past year, according to figures released by the Social Security Administration.
Throughout 2020 the name Karen fell a whopping 171 spots on the popularity list, from a low of 660 to number 831, Huffington Post reported Tuesday.
The name’s popularity had already been ebbing, falling to its lowest ranking since 1929 by the end of last year, Huffington Post reported in September 2020. While it fell 23 spots to 660 on the list of popular baby names for 2019, it has plummeted even more since then.
The parents of just 325 baby girls named their daughter Karen last year, down from 439 in 2019, Huffington Post said, citing the SSA. In 1965, at the name’s peak popularity, nearly 33,000 newborns were named Karen, HuffPo noted.
