Carlen
Carlen was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 567 Americans have been recorded with it between 1930 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,333, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1971, the peak
Carlen peaked in 1971, when 23 babies were given it (18 girls, #3,520 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,426 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,594 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #10,954 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,333 | 5 | #12,577 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 7 | #10,035 | |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,813 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,040 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,907 | 6 | #9,551 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,194 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 9 | #6,918 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 8 | #10,519 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,515 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,087 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,595 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,743 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,149 | 6 | #7,756 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,646 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,454 | 6 | #7,385 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,585 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,823 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,397 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,852 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,464 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,189 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,568 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,391 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,277 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,151 | 7 | #4,912 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,252 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,651 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,103 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,244 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,323 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,230 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,322 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,520 | 5 | #5,006 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,598 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,502 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,692 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,029 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,886 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,092 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,961 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,913 | 7 | #3,346 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,228 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,332 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,962 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,968 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,940 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,110 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,787 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,757 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,394 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,744 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,366 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,926 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,624 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,818 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,079 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 6 | #3,152 | |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,012 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,520 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,744 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 7 | #3,326 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Carlen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 567 Americans recorded as Carlen, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carlen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlen, and how old are they?
An estimated 494 Americans named Carlen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 33 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 740 people named Carlen (521 women and girls, 219 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 504 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Carlen rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 577,642 babies since 1880, Carlen is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 220 babies recorded by SSA was a Carlen (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.
More about Carlen and names like it
- Compare Carlen and CarolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarlen peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Carlen.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carlen alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.