# Kare (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kare/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /kɛɚ/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Kareng |
| US babies named this | 109 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 109 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 6 | 5,736 |
| 1959 | 6 | 5,878 |
| 1960 | 6 | 6,001 |
| 1961 | 6 | 6,178 |
| 1962 | 9 | 4,694 |
| 1963 | 5 | 7,068 |
| 1964 | 6 | 6,354 |
| 1967 | 8 | 5,180 |
| 1968 | 5 | 7,511 |
| 1970 | 5 | 8,589 |
| 1974 | 6 | 8,123 |
| 1976 | 7 | 7,643 |
| 1987 | 5 | 12,155 |
| 1997 | 5 | 14,856 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,427 |

## In other languages

- Hindi: करे

## People named Kare

- Kåre Willoch, 30th Prime Minister of Norway
- Kåre Bremer, botanist
- Kåre Bluitgen, Danish writer and journalist
- Kare Adenegan, British para athletics competitor
- Kaare Wahlberg, former Norwegian ski jumper, Olympic medalist (1912–1988)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.