Caren

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Caren: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
9times a registrar ranked it
45years from first to last
#354highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2011

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
2001	#3998
2011	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 6 of the 16 years from 1967 to 1982.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2011 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #354 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1967–1982
Highest recorded position: #354 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1967 (recorded 1967–1982).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2011
Most recently recorded at #5785 among girls in England and Wales, in 2011.
England and Wales · Girls

Caren appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 6 years beginning in 1967, and has registered 23 births with the name.

Caren across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Caren's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#3795 (1996)	#5785 (2011)	3 of 16	9 (1996–2011)	3 (1996)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#354 (1967)	#354 (1967)	#523 (1982)	6 of 16	23 (1967–1982)	6 (1980)

Caren by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Caren in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	10	3 of 10	3
1980s	9	2 of 10	5

See the names Republic of Ireland has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #354 in Republic of Ireland in 1967.

Caren's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	6	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Caren is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Caren, between 1967 and 2011, in 9 of those 45 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1967–1982	6	#354 in 1967
England and Wales	1996–2011	3	#3795 in 1996

Its high point came 29 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1967) than in England and Wales (1996).

No registrar recorded it for 13 years after 1982; it appears again in 1996.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

Caren was ranked #354 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1967. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Antonette#354
Antonia#354
Bairbre#354
Carla#354
Adeline#393
Adrienna#393
Agatha#393
Aidin#393

What is known about Caren

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1967–2011.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #354 in Republic of Ireland in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Caren

Caren at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Caren across 2 official records

Caren by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Popularity data

Where Caren is officially recorded

Names published alongside Caren

What is known about Caren

Caren at a glance

Caren across 2 official records

Caren by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Names published alongside Caren