Meaning not yet researched.
Carmen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 798 in 2025. Its best rank was #141 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #141 in 1968; #389 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Carmen in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#389 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #141.
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Carmen: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 798 girls in 2025. Peak: #141 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 2,440 (1960).
In 2025, 798 US girls were named Carmen, making it the 389th most common girls’ name of the year, up 28 places from #417 in 2024. That is 47 more than the 751 girls named Carmen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #141, reached in 1968. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,440, in 1960. For comparison, it was #382 in 2015 and #186 in 1950.
In 2025, 104 US boys were named Carmen, making it the 1,624th most common boys’ name of the year, up 282 places from #1,906 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 83 boys named Carmen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #307, reached in 1928. The most boys given the name in a single year was 344, in 1924. For comparison, it was #4,313 in 2015 and #474 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carmen in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 7 babies. In all, 159,756 US babies have been given the name, 89% of them girls and 11% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 24,535 babies named Carmen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,463 US girls were named Carmen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 830. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,014 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carmen ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #250 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carmela (24,511 babies since 1880), Karmen (7,287 babies since 1880), Carmine (14,437 babies since 1880) and Carman (3,491 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carmina, Carmin and Karmin 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 Dutch, Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carmina (1,323), Carmin (993), Karmin (990), Karman (663), Karmon (208), Carmyne (47), Carmynn (24), Carmenita (17), Carmene (5).
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 Carmen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 11 | #250 | #276 |
| Tennessee | 30 | #257 | #299 |
| Washington | 27 | #265 | #297 |
| Iowa | 12 | #281 | #335 |
| Ohio | 39 | #282 | #374 |
| North Carolina | 39 | #283 | #288 |
| Georgia | 35 | #295 | #231 |
| Virginia | 28 | #299 | #304 |
| Missouri | 19 | #313 | #314 |
| Idaho | 7 | #316 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #316 | #192 |
| Texas | 99 | #347 | #428 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #349 | #374 |
| Michigan | 25 | #354 | #365 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #355 | #390 |
| Colorado | 17 | #358 | #417 |
| Maryland | 15 | #359 | #227 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #387 | — |
| Florida | 47 | #399 | #413 |
| Oregon | 9 | #400 | — |
| California | 81 | #407 | #385 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #426 | #487 |
| Alabama | 11 | #448 | #316 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #455 | #315 |
| Kansas | 7 | #457 | — |
| Minnesota | 11 | #468 | #387 |
| Illinois | 22 | #472 | #562 |
| New York | 35 | #485 | #623 |
| Indiana | 13 | #520 | #340 |
| Arizona | 13 | #523 | #367 |
| Nevada | 5 | #535 | #296 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #575 | #359 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #709 | #240 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #729 | #480 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 798 | #389 | 104 | #1,624 |
| 2024 | 751 | #417 | 83 | #1,906 |
| 2023 | 712 | #435 | 51 | #2,586 |
| 2022 | 696 | #453 | 30 | #3,703 |
| 2021 | 716 | #437 | 26 | #4,033 |
| 2020 | 708 | #433 | 20 | #4,728 |
| 2019 | 743 | #428 | 29 | #3,732 |
| 2018 | 733 | #431 | 18 | #5,140 |
| 2017 | 776 | #409 | 17 | #5,326 |
| 2016 | 830 | #400 | 32 | #3,455 |
| 2015 | 859 | #382 | 23 | #4,313 |
| 2014 | 855 | #383 | 23 | #4,281 |
| 2013 | 881 | #358 | 26 | #3,878 |
| 2012 | 943 | #332 | 28 | #3,729 |
| 2011 | 919 | #349 | 38 | #3,004 |
| 2010 | 1,017 | #314 | 37 | #3,081 |
| 2009 | 1,106 | #301 | 26 | #3,932 |
| 2008 | 1,312 | #262 | 42 | #2,835 |
| 2007 | 1,244 | #275 | 45 | #2,688 |
| 2006 | 1,284 | #257 | 47 | #2,545 |
| 2005 | 1,227 | #268 | 54 | #2,211 |
| 2004 | 1,363 | #239 | 36 | #2,851 |
| 2003 | 1,291 | #254 | 47 | #2,279 |
| 2002 | 1,020 | #306 | 63 | #1,820 |
| 2001 | 1,175 | #267 | 38 | #2,530 |
| 2000 | 1,195 | #270 | 66 | #1,714 |
| 1999 | 1,139 | #276 | 49 | #1,968 |
| 1998 | 1,121 | #278 | 67 | #1,574 |
| 1997 | 1,012 | #284 | 48 | #1,909 |
| 1996 | 869 | #322 | 62 | #1,587 |
| 1995 | 1,004 | #272 | 63 | #1,511 |
| 1994 | 1,167 | #239 | 68 | #1,422 |
| 1993 | 1,092 | #254 | 68 | #1,408 |
| 1992 | 1,205 | #228 | 72 | #1,329 |
| 1991 | 1,235 | #230 | 67 | #1,388 |
| 1990 | 1,314 | #218 | 92 | #1,118 |
| 1989 | 1,187 | #231 | 67 | #1,337 |
| 1988 | 1,170 | #224 | 81 | #1,109 |
| 1987 | 1,151 | #234 | 85 | #1,030 |
| 1986 | 1,199 | #221 | 78 | #1,056 |
| 1985 | 1,168 | #224 | 77 | #1,051 |
| 1984 | 1,299 | #204 | 76 | #1,025 |
| 1983 | 1,228 | #206 | 71 | #1,050 |
| 1982 | 1,315 | #207 | 70 | #1,088 |
| 1981 | 1,446 | #188 | 107 | #851 |
| 1980 | 1,461 | #183 | 100 | #895 |
| 1979 | 1,609 | #172 | 77 | #1,012 |
| 1978 | 1,428 | #182 | 105 | #836 |
| 1977 | 1,630 | #166 | 95 | #869 |
| 1976 | 1,616 | #159 | 95 | #853 |
| 1975 | 1,775 | #151 | 114 | #775 |
| 1974 | 1,749 | #157 | 91 | #841 |
| 1973 | 1,757 | #156 | 106 | #773 |
| 1972 | 1,968 | #144 | 123 | #720 |
| 1971 | 2,139 | #153 | 126 | #734 |
| 1970 | 2,202 | #152 | 127 | #728 |
| 1969 | 2,200 | #149 | 142 | #662 |
| 1968 | 2,270 | #141 | 153 | #615 |
| 1967 | 2,173 | #157 | 133 | #647 |
| 1966 | 2,122 | #163 | 135 | #635 |
| 1965 | 2,148 | #165 | 159 | #605 |
| 1964 | 2,376 | #164 | 177 | #594 |
| 1963 | 2,347 | #168 | 169 | #603 |
| 1962 | 2,411 | #170 | 182 | #580 |
| 1961 | 2,401 | #169 | 221 | #536 |
| 1960 | 2,440 | #167 | 176 | #587 |
| 1959 | 2,215 | #174 | 232 | #516 |
| 1958 | 2,120 | #177 | 224 | #517 |
| 1957 | 2,218 | #172 | 237 | #503 |
| 1956 | 2,207 | #166 | 210 | #520 |
| 1955 | 2,048 | #169 | 194 | #526 |
| 1954 | 1,785 | #184 | 214 | #496 |
| 1953 | 1,725 | #185 | 220 | #471 |
| 1952 | 1,608 | #184 | 202 | #496 |
| 1951 | 1,567 | #184 | 201 | #477 |
| 1950 | 1,460 | #186 | 199 | #474 |
| 1949 | 1,455 | #189 | 224 | #446 |
| 1948 | 1,309 | #204 | 235 | #436 |
| 1947 | 1,237 | #212 | 234 | #438 |
| 1946 | 1,071 | #218 | 213 | #434 |
| 1945 | 872 | #218 | 170 | #455 |
| 1944 | 942 | #210 | 201 | #431 |
| 1943 | 1,036 | #204 | 229 | #408 |
| 1942 | 991 | #206 | 264 | #375 |
| 1941 | 956 | #195 | 231 | #380 |
| 1940 | 823 | #211 | 219 | #386 |
| 1939 | 776 | #215 | 201 | #403 |
| 1938 | 793 | #213 | 203 | #399 |
| 1937 | 775 | #216 | 215 | #377 |
| 1936 | 847 | #199 | 208 | #379 |
| 1935 | 830 | #206 | 211 | #373 |
| 1934 | 852 | #208 | 224 | #364 |
| 1933 | 832 | #208 | 266 | #330 |
| 1932 | 886 | #205 | 235 | #363 |
| 1931 | 934 | #196 | 246 | #352 |
| 1930 | 1,044 | #184 | 274 | #336 |
| 1929 | 1,066 | #187 | 270 | #340 |
| 1928 | 1,017 | #199 | 329 | #307 |
| 1927 | 1,019 | #199 | 327 | #318 |
| 1926 | 956 | #202 | 322 | #316 |
| 1925 | 939 | #209 | 335 | #311 |
| 1924 | 942 | #207 | 344 | #308 |
| 1923 | 925 | #209 | 303 | #334 |
| 1922 | 783 | #231 | 317 | #323 |
| 1921 | 776 | #234 | 316 | #334 |
| 1920 | 757 | #237 | 292 | #342 |
| 1919 | 632 | #255 | 256 | #360 |
| 1918 | 637 | #254 | 273 | #347 |
| 1917 | 559 | #264 | 258 | #346 |
| 1916 | 508 | #270 | 276 | #313 |
| 1915 | 483 | #267 | 211 | #370 |
| 1914 | 374 | #269 | 173 | #357 |
| 1913 | 300 | #269 | 124 | #378 |
| 1912 | 231 | #297 | 95 | #393 |
| 1911 | 199 | #273 | 56 | #373 |
| 1910 | 181 | #289 | 41 | #421 |
| 1909 | 157 | #287 | 26 | #505 |
| 1908 | 122 | #321 | 12 | #786 |
| 1907 | 125 | #311 | 23 | #487 |
| 1906 | 135 | #286 | 20 | #507 |
| 1905 | 89 | #354 | 12 | #704 |
| 1904 | 80 | #366 | 12 | #691 |
| 1903 | 90 | #327 | 11 | #705 |
| 1902 | 75 | #368 | 5 | #1,171 |
| 1901 | 76 | #349 | 12 | #606 |
| 1900 | 91 | #352 | 10 | #849 |
| 1899 | 38 | #476 | 10 | #668 |
| 1898 | 63 | #390 | 8 | #816 |
| 1897 | 53 | #397 | 5 | #1,085 |
| 1896 | 48 | #417 | 8 | #835 |
| 1895 | 29 | #548 | 5 | #1,102 |
| 1894 | 49 | #399 | 5 | #1,104 |
| 1893 | 39 | #433 | — | — |
| 1892 | 41 | #415 | — | — |
| 1891 | 31 | #459 | — | — |
| 1890 | 28 | #492 | — | — |
| 1889 | 27 | #476 | — | — |
| 1888 | 26 | #487 | — | — |
| 1887 | 12 | #666 | — | — |
| 1886 | 16 | #557 | — | — |
| 1885 | 24 | #430 | — | — |
| 1884 | 14 | #561 | — | — |
| 1883 | 8 | #704 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #752 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #690 | — | — |
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).