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Karmen

#1,875 in 2025Girls' name

Song, poem, through Carmen

Karmen has been given to 7,287 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #1,875 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 246 recorded.

Babies named Karmen, 2025

1 in 31,600

Karmen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karmen: meaning, origin, and history

Song, poem, through Carmen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karmen means

Karmen belongs to the name family reached through Karmen → Carmen. Its meaning is “song, poem”.

Origin, language, and formation

Karmen is used in Estonian.

Karmen comes through Spanish Carmen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carmen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,272 girls were recorded with the name Karmen between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 246 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,063 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,313 in 2020 to #1,875 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,295 in 2015 to #1,875 in 2025.

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Karmen between 1995 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1995; its best national rank was #9,588 in 1995.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Karmen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 31,600
105 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 15,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,875
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,886 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karmen 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,886 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karmen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karmens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karmen was born before 2004 — so the typical Karmen is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,125
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (1,976).

Is Karmen 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
+148
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−562
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−580
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.7%
Peak was 2008 (246)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,063
2008

Spellings of Karmen

Karmen is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 72.3% against Karmen's 0.53%.

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 Karmen is used

Across 2016–2025, Karmen was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,887 girls, against 1 in 10,459 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

153 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,887
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 3,125
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 3,226
  4. 4Georgia1 in 3,448
  5. 5Alabama1 in 3,846
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 4,167
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 4,545
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 5,000

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.

Karmen around the world

Where Karmen 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2019
    #765
    in 2019
  • France
    2000–2018
    #6,664
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1952–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Karmen

People whose public names include Karmen, 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.

Karmen in other languages

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

CarmenCarmeKarmele

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

Karmen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,875
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 562
Best rank ever
#1,063
2008
Peak year
2008
246 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,272
Count in 2025
105

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,588
1995
Peak year
1995
5 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Karmen

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

KarleyKarsynKarrieKarlieKarterKarleeKarenaKarmaKarisKarolynKarelyKarimeKarolKarieKarlynKarlyKarliKarmynKarymeKarriKarsonKarsenKarimaKarissa

Names with a curve like Karmen

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

DalilaNellyBlytheMikaLainaFarahZaidaCharisRainaSabineMeliaKayleen

Sibling names for Karmen

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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