One of those strange questions that suddenly pop into your head. What are the origins of my names? A quick search for Karen, surprisingly didn't produce an awful lot other than it was a Danish short form of "Katherine". A bit of digging further found that (certainly according to a Biblical names site) that it was in fact a name whose origins were very unclear. One thing I did like(according to the site) was that my name is associated with someone who could foretell their own death. Would that be good or bad?