Fewer than five US girls were named Carleen in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #650, reached in 1949. The most girls given the name in a single year was 168, in 1961. For comparison, it was #13,284 in 2015 and #719 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carleen in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 6,744 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 1,498 babies named Carleen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 39 US girls were named Carleen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 12.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carlene (15,225 babies since 1880), Karleen (2,766 babies since 1880), Carlin (4,565 babies since 1880) and Carlyn (4,373 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carlyon, Carloyn and Carlleen are summarised on this page.