Fewer than five US girls were named Carman in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,319, reached in 1964. The most girls given the name in a single year was 77, in 1970. For comparison, it was #14,866 in 2015 and #2,356 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Carman in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,075, reached in 1901. The most boys given the name in a single year was 36, in 1927. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #2,125 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carman in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 5 babies. In all, 3,491 US babies have been given the name, 69% of them girls and 31% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 648 babies named Carman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19 US girls were named Carman; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 7.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carmen (159,756 babies since 1880), Carmine (14,437 babies since 1880), Karmen (7,287 babies since 1880) and Carmon (2,836 babies since 1880).