Karlena — girls' name

What the Data Says About Karlena

The Social Security Administration has registered 266 babies named Karlena between 1956 and 2017, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karlena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karlena performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Karlena shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karlena 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 266 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.