Carleen
Carleen was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 6,744 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,840 Americans named Carleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 50 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,761, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
168 babies in 1961, the peak
Carleen peaked in 1961, when 168 girls were given it, #810 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #15,761 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,430 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,130 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,902 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,165 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,279 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,670 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,190 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,388 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,858 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 | #9,910 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,640 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,777 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,173 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,618 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,266 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,340 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,621 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,183 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,216 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,671 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,468 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,435 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,168 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,640 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,223 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,545 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 46 | #2,639 | 25.4 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,387 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,591 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,963 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,614 | 23.3 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,875 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,362 | 25.3 |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,065 | 17.5 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,660 | 20.9 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,022 | 29.7 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,840 | 34.1 |
| 1982 | 47 | #2,153 | 27.8 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,270 | 26.4 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,075 | 30.1 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,024 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,672 | 41.1 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,836 | 35.9 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,572 | 43.7 |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,563 | 43.9 |
| 1974 | 76 | #1,365 | 51.8 |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,400 | 48.0 |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,171 | 60.5 |
| 1971 | 98 | #1,172 | 58.9 |
| 1970 | 120 | #1,028 | 68.6 |
| 1969 | 125 | #955 | 74.1 |
| 1968 | 132 | #898 | 80.5 |
| 1967 | 125 | #914 | 75.7 |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,000 | 62.1 |
| 1965 | 121 | #916 | 68.5 |
| 1964 | 116 | #990 | 61.2 |
| 1963 | 136 | #898 | 70.6 |
| 1962 | 161 | #826 | 81.9 |
| 1961 | 168 | #810 | 83.2 |
| 1960 | 140 | #877 | 69.2 |
| 1959 | 159 | #813 | 78.6 |
| 1958 | 152 | #817 | 75.6 |
| 1957 | 152 | #820 | 74.3 |
| 1956 | 136 | #849 | 67.7 |
| 1955 | 164 | #741 | 83.9 |
| 1954 | 159 | #733 | 81.9 |
| 1953 | 167 | #707 | 88.8 |
| 1952 | 137 | #760 | 73.9 |
| 1951 | 130 | #775 | 72.2 |
| 1950 | 142 | #718 | 82.9 |
| 1949 | 163 | #649 | 95.3 |
| 1948 | 124 | #767 | 73.0 |
| 1947 | 113 | #824 | 63.7 |
| 1946 | 100 | #827 | 63.6 |
| 1945 | 92 | #779 | 70.4 |
| 1944 | 75 | #882 | 56.5 |
| 1943 | 99 | #783 | 71.0 |
| 1942 | 97 | #769 | 71.8 |
| 1941 | 89 | #758 | 73.7 |
| 1940 | 103 | #683 | 90.1 |
| 1939 | 83 | #752 | 75.7 |
| 1938 | 70 | #847 | 63.4 |
| 1937 | 74 | #797 | 69.5 |
| 1936 | 60 | #876 | 57.7 |
| 1935 | 80 | #758 | 76.3 |
| 1934 | 66 | #839 | 63.2 |
| 1933 | 67 | #814 | 66.5 |
| 1932 | 63 | #880 | 59.0 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,396 | 26.3 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,086 | 40.9 |
| 1929 | 50 | #1,033 | 44.8 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,101 | 40.8 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,279 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,307 | 30.4 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,511 | 24.6 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,414 | 27.2 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,276 | 13.3 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,411 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,873 | 17.8 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,750 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,704 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,213 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,515 | 23.1 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,390 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,274 | 13.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,250 | 7.9 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,365 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,409 | 12.5 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,256 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,893 | 17.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carleen, and how old are they?
4,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 6,744 Americans ever recorded as Carleen. The median Carleen alive today is 63 years old; half are between 50 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 5,304 people named Carleen (5,299 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,297 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 433 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,120 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 667 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 252 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 66 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Carleen born?
The states with the most babies named Carleen are California, New York and Michigan, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 645 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 528 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 214 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 211 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 192 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 155 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 149 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 102 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 76 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Carleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carleen is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carleen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,668 babies since 1880, Carleen is the most given (40% of them).
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 Carleen
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 Carleen and names like it
- Compare Carleen and CarlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCarleen peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Carleen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carleen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.