Carmen
Carmen is ranked 416th among girls in 2024 (751 births). Its best rank was 141st, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- #416up 18 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7510.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 19602,439 births
- Best rank
- #141in 1968
- Since 1881
- 158,841people given the name
The story in the numbers
141,984 girls have been named Carmen in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 2,439 births — 0.12% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 383 → 416).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 16%. It has spent 144 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 16,857 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Carmen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 141 | |
| 1890s | 419 | |
| 1900s | 1,040 | |
| 1910s | 4,104 | |
| 1920s | 9,180 | |
| 1930s | 8,569 | |
| 1940s | 10,692 | |
| 1950s | 18,953 | |
| 1960s | 22,885 | |
| 1970s | 17,874 | |
| 1980s | 12,622 | |
| 1990s | 11,158 | |
| 2000s | 12,217 | |
| 2010s | 8,552 | |
| 2020s | 3,578 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Carmen was the 167th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Carmen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Margaritapeak 1957
- Delenapeak 1967
- Mimipeak 1961
- Mariapeak 1964
- Teresitapeak 1962
- Twylapeak 1964
- Janettepeak 1953
- Angelitapeak 1975
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.