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Carleen

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Carleen has been given to 6,744 babies in the U.S. since 1908. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Carleen, 2022

1 in 677,000

Carleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carleen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carleen means

Carleen is a given name.

The naming story behind Carleen

Wikidata records Carleen as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q5041147, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,744 girls were recorded with the name Carleen between 1908 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 168 in 1961; its best national rank was #649 in 1949.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Carleen?

Carleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carleen was born before 1958 — so the typical Carleen is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,636
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (1,498).

Is Carleen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1961 (168)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#649
1949

Spellings of Carleen

Carleen is not the most common spelling — Colleen is, with 24.9% against Carleen's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Carleen was most concentrated in Rhode Island — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 47,050 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Rhode Island1 in 12,500
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 25,000
  5. 5New York1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carleen around the world

Where Carleen ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1982–1989
    #576
    in 1989
  • Ireland
    1995–1995
    #516
    in 1995
  • Canada
    1991–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1944–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Carleen

People whose public names include Carleen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carleen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Carleen. Linked forms have their own page here.

CarleneKarleen

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Carleen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#649
1949
Peak year
1961
168 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
6,744
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carleen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Carleen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carleen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RositaAletaBarbraMariannJoellenRoseanneEvonneJacqueKarleneMaritaBonnyPatrica

Sibling names for Carleen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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