There are 1.3 million people in the United States named Karen, and many people share that name in places ranging from Canada to the UK, India, Scandinavia, Australia, Mexico and Japan. There are over 5 million people of the ethnolinguistic group Karen. In other words, roughly 7 million people in the world claim the word "Karen" as part of their core identity.

Lately, the word has been wrongly adopted by popular culture to express a range of negative behaviors. In reality, there is no such thing as "Karen" behavior. Karen behavior is the full range of human behavior. This site aims to showcase the best of it.

For more information on the Karen trend, see karenismyname.org.