Babies named Karen in the US

American thrift sales rising as American babies named Karen quietly retreat from the charts. The vintage jacket is being bought; the name is being avoided. The 2010s reorganised one closet and one birth-certificate spreadsheet at the same time.

The Karen baby-name count fell sharply across this window as the meme entered popular culture and parents stopped choosing it; by 2022 the name had dropped well outside the top 600. US thrift and secondhand revenue roughly doubled in the same window as Gen Z secondhand culture, Depop, and the eco-label tailwind expanded the category. Two completely unrelated cultural and consumer trajectories on opposite trajectories sharing a window because the same eleven years rejected one association and embraced another.

A name retreated. A shopping habit grew. The decade was busy with reassignments.