Karrington
Feminine · “Old English”
Karrington is given to both — 1,428 girls and 306 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
The Carringtons were the richest family on American television for eight years. Dynasty ran from 1981 to 1989, and the surname went from the credits into the birth records within a couple of seasons.
How old is the name Karrington?
Karrington first appears in US birth records in 1989 — 36 years ago. The typical Karrington alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,400 people named Karrington are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Karrington most popular?
Karrington peaked in 1999, reaching #1719 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 9,198 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
Where it comes from
From Carrington to Karrington
The story of Karrington
Television surnames enter American naming reliably, and the prime-time serials of the 1980s supplied a set of them: Carrington, Ewing, Colby, Chandler. Dynasty was among the most watched programs in the country for several seasons, and its central family gave the name a specific set of associations that had nothing to do with Cheshire, where the place name comes from. The K spelling belongs to the second stage, when a name is familiar enough that parents begin to distinguish their version of it. The place behind it is genuine: an -ington name is built from a personal name, a suffix meaning the people of, and a word for a farmstead, and it was fixed on the English map by the eleventh century.
Meaningscholars disagree
Old English, the settlement of Cur's people
Carrington is an English place name and surname, generally from a personal name with the group suffix -ingas and tun, a farmstead. Karrington is an American respelling with a K; the peak is 1999.
How the name formed
- Carrington
- Karrington
Related forms: Carrington · Kerrington
Pronouncing Karrington
KAIR-ing-tun
Three syllables, stress on the first. Carrington and Karrington are homophones.
Nicknames for Karrington
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1989
- Most girls named
- 200099 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1719reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −42.9%8 in 2025, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Karrington in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Carrington in English — spelling variant
- Kerrington in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, North Carolina, Illinois.
Karringtons among us
people named Karrington are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Karrington
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Karrington
- #10917
- Karrington on the 2025 chart
- #935
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Karrington went to 8 girls in 2025, but Carrington is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 935th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,982 places above the chart.
- Carrington17
- Karrington8
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Karrington itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dion test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Karrington's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dion climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dion's path sketches the road Karrington is walking now.
Karrington sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Karrington beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Karrington in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Kari works as a short form and is a full name of its own.
- Three syllables with a firm opening beat.
- The English place name behind it is genuine.
- Carrington with a C is the standard spelling.
- It reads as a surname, which it is.
- The 1999 peak dates this form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Karringtons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Karrington are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Karrington?
- Karrington is one of 2 recorded spellings. Carrington is the more common one — 17 births in 2025 against 8 for Karrington.
- How popular is the name Karrington in 2025?
- Karrington ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Karrington?
- About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Karrington — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Karrington with classmates?
- Karrington will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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