Carena
Carena was last recorded in 2017, when 7 babies were given it; 329 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,983, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1998, the peak
Carena peaked in 1998, when 18 girls were given it, #5,608 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 7 | #12,983 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,931 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,534 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,838 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,765 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,658 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,617 | 4.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,569 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,214 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,307 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 7 | #12,284 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,650 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,319 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,608 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,916 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,924 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,019 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,224 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,572 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,055 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,716 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,923 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,589 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,782 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,966 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,663 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,524 | 5.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,159 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,711 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,271 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,409 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,720 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,971 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,291 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,536 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,449 | 5.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,636 | 2.8 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,078 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carena, and how old are they?
An estimated 316 Americans named Carena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 25 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 411 people named Carena (411 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 318 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Carena?
Carena is a less common spelling of Karena: SSA has recorded 329 Carena and 3,508 Karena since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 85,586 babies since 1880, Carena is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 533 babies recorded by SSA was a Carena (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carena and names like it
- Compare Carena and KarenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCarena peaked in 1998.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Carena.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Carena alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.