Karen vs Kiki - What's the difference?
karen | kiki |
. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
* 1878 , Drift-Weed , Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
* 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
As proper nouns the difference between karen and kiki
is that karen is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s while Kiki is a pet form of several female given names beginning with "K".As a noun kiki is
a gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.karen
English
(wikipedia Karen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) Karen.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
- I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .External links
Ethnologue report on the Karen languages
