Meaning not yet researched.
Carlene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #378 in 1936.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #378 in 1936; #15,373 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carlene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,373 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1936, at #378.
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Carlene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #378 in 1936 · most girls in one year: 370 (1955).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Carlene, making it the 15,373rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 6,822 places from #8,551 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 12 girls named Carlene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #378, reached in 1936. The most girls given the name in a single year was 370, in 1955. For comparison, it was #7,039 in 2015 and #444 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carlene in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 15,225 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 3,302 babies named Carlene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 128 US girls were named Carlene; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carleen (6,744 babies since 1880), Karlene (4,167 babies since 1880), Carlin (4,565 babies since 1880) and Carlyn (4,373 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carlon, Carlynn and Carlean are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carlon (1,050), Carlynn (825), Carlean (608), Carlen (567), Carlyne (207), Karlen (163), Carlan (65), Karline (47), Carleene (32), Carleon (17), Carlann (16), Karlyne (13), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carlene in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,373 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,551 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,399 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,347 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,454 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,499 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,819 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,065 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,163 | — | — |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,711 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,039 | — | — |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,505 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,792 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,205 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,772 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,223 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,592 | — | — |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,474 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,187 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,673 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,931 | — | — |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,747 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,129 | — | — |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1994 | 64 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 1991 | 90 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,564 | — | — |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1983 | 82 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1982 | 93 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1979 | 88 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1977 | 73 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1976 | 84 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1975 | 86 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1974 | 108 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1973 | 107 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1972 | 114 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1971 | 141 | #919 | — | — |
| 1970 | 150 | #885 | — | — |
| 1969 | 189 | #737 | — | — |
| 1968 | 152 | #824 | — | — |
| 1967 | 180 | #731 | — | — |
| 1966 | 205 | #680 | — | — |
| 1965 | 239 | #632 | — | — |
| 1964 | 267 | #612 | — | — |
| 1963 | 262 | #622 | — | — |
| 1962 | 276 | #601 | — | — |
| 1961 | 302 | #577 | — | — |
| 1960 | 317 | #545 | — | — |
| 1959 | 333 | #531 | — | — |
| 1958 | 355 | #513 | — | — |
| 1957 | 342 | #515 | — | — |
| 1956 | 301 | #541 | — | — |
| 1955 | 370 | #473 | — | — |
| 1954 | 302 | #511 | — | — |
| 1953 | 339 | #460 | — | — |
| 1952 | 340 | #459 | — | — |
| 1951 | 290 | #484 | — | — |
| 1950 | 330 | #444 | — | — |
| 1949 | 298 | #465 | — | — |
| 1948 | 316 | #449 | — | — |
| 1947 | 353 | #435 | — | — |
| 1946 | 315 | #436 | — | — |
| 1945 | 257 | #443 | — | — |
| 1944 | 270 | #437 | — | — |
| 1943 | 309 | #415 | — | — |
| 1942 | 293 | #419 | — | — |
| 1941 | 321 | #380 | — | — |
| 1940 | 294 | #395 | — | — |
| 1939 | 294 | #384 | — | — |
| 1938 | 277 | #400 | — | — |
| 1937 | 254 | #405 | — | — |
| 1936 | 285 | #378 | — | — |
| 1935 | 234 | #424 | — | — |
| 1934 | 256 | #409 | — | — |
| 1933 | 208 | #453 | — | — |
| 1932 | 175 | #499 | — | — |
| 1931 | 156 | #527 | — | — |
| 1930 | 134 | #594 | — | — |
| 1929 | 140 | #578 | — | — |
| 1928 | 119 | #645 | — | — |
| 1927 | 92 | #748 | — | — |
| 1926 | 101 | #722 | — | — |
| 1925 | 67 | #907 | — | — |
| 1924 | 79 | #846 | — | — |
| 1923 | 64 | #914 | — | — |
| 1922 | 58 | #980 | — | — |
| 1921 | 54 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1920 | 65 | #905 | — | — |
| 1919 | 53 | #987 | — | — |
| 1918 | 47 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1917 | 45 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1915 | 42 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,629 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).