Carlena
Carlena was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,128 among girls’ names; 1,426 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Carlena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 29 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlena?
#11,128 among girls’ names, 2025
Carlena fell from #9,602 in 2015 to #11,128 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 5.0 per million.
42 babies in 1975, the peak
Carlena peaked in 1975, when 42 girls were given it, #2,063 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,128 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,321 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,639 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,720 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,783 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,698 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,732 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,486 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,689 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,602 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 20 | #6,243 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,409 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,213 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,378 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,495 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,841 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,813 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,978 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,817 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,568 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,839 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,073 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,908 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,280 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,253 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,629 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,611 | 10.2 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,046 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,101 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,480 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,047 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,236 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,253 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,700 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,083 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,880 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,506 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,491 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,366 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,746 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,347 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,444 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,538 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,080 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,332 | 15.1 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,679 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,649 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,384 | 14.3 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,698 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,063 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,572 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,358 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,190 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,383 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,891 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,775 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,188 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,225 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,949 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,846 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,756 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,710 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,047 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,553 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,101 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,878 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,205 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,161 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,464 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,413 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,213 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,284 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,168 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,306 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,696 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,927 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,163 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,779 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,494 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,080 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,416 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,533 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,057 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,013 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,445 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,475 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,604 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,489 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,415 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,186 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,303 | 12.4 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,080 | 8.4 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,172 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,808 | 6.1 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,386 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,397 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,057 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,402 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,412 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,553 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,663 | 6.7 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,059 | 8.6 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,170 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,594 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,377 | 5.1 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,035 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,969 | 17.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 107 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlena, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 81% of the 1,426 Americans ever recorded as Carlena. The median Carlena alive today is 45 years old; half are between 29 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,097 people named Carlena (1,097 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 43 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 197 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 321 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 198 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 100 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,988 babies since 1880, Carlena is the fifth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 797 babies (1.0%), the third most given that year.
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 Carlena
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 Carlena and names like it
- Compare Carlena and CarolinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCarlena peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlena since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Carlena.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Carlena alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.