Carlen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Carlen

The Social Security Administration has registered 466 babies named Carlen between 1941 and 2012, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carlen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Carlen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 101 additional births since 1930.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carlen performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 106 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Carlen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carlen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 466 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.