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Karleen

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Karleen has been given to 2,766 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1964, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Karleen, 2024

1 in 669,000

Karleen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karleen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karleen means

Karleen is a given name.

The naming story behind Karleen

Wikidata records Karleen as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q96477618, 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, 2,766 girls were recorded with the name Karleen between 1914 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 74 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,091 in 1937.

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 Karleen?

Karleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karleen 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karleen was born before 1959 — so the typical Karleen is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,892
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1950s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (538).

Is Karleen 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (74)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,091
1937

Spellings of Karleen

Karleen is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 46.8% against Karleen's 0.13%.

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 Karleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Karleen was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 161,532 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Rhode Island1 in 100,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 100,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Louisiana1 in —

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. Karleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Karleen around the world

Where Karleen 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • Scotland
    1987–1988
    #511
    in 1988
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1967–1982
    #463
    in 1982

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

Notable people named Karleen

People whose public names include Karleen, 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.

Karleen in other languages

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

CarleenKarlene

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

Karleen 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,091
1937
Peak year
1964
74 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,766
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karleen

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

KareenKarismaKaralynKareenaKarizmaKarolynKarelyKarimeKarlynKarenaKarmynKarymeKarsonKarolineKarsenKareemaKarterKarolinaKarleighKarimaJasleenKarineKarianaMarleen

Names with a curve like Karleen

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

JacqualineDelaineDennisGaryDreamaKathleneJoettaRonaldHermelindaJohnetteJonellRegena

Sibling names for Karleen

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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