Carlena

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births

Peak · girls
1910 · 7 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,426
since 1910

Carlena over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Carlena has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201910peak #1,935, 1910girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024#11,1228
2023#15,1945
2022—
2021#15,2515
2020#13,4536
2019#12,4487
2018#10,5459
2017#14,1246
2016#14,3316
2015#9,48111
2014#6,20720
2013#10,23510
2012#9,10912
2011#12,1538
2010#12,2768
2009#10,67910
2008#7,74216
2007#10,81810
2006#8,71513
2005#9,45211
2004#6,76817
2003#7,99813
2002#13,5956
2001#8,19612
2000#6,20817
1999#9,4799
1998#5,58318
1997#5,01020
1996#6,06415
1995#5,43917
1994#5,01619
1993#5,20618
1992#4,23624
1991#5,65916
1990#5,06018
1989#5,83614
1988#4,49619
1987#4,47418
1986#4,34718
1985#3,73022
1984#4,31817
1983#3,43123
1982#3,53023
1981#3,06628
1980#3,31825
1979#3,66821
1978#3,63720
1977#3,36622
1976#3,67818
1975#2,06042
1974#3,55818
1973#2,34932
1972#3,17720
1971#3,37319
1970#3,87215
1969#2,76823
1968#3,16917
1967#3,21116
1966#2,93718
1965#2,83319
1964#2,75221
1963#2,70421
1962#3,03317
1961#2,54323
1960#3,09516
1959#2,86917
1958#6,1035
1957#3,15014
1956#2,45321
1955#4,3768
1954#5,1486
1953#3,26912
1952#4,1238
1951#3,28411
1950#3,6629
1949#3,8928
1948#3,13711
1947#2,76914
1946#4,4176
1945#4,0256
1944#3,3788
1943#3,4938
1942#2,04618
1941#3,9546
1940#4,3495
1939#3,4297
1938#2,57911
1937#3,4347
1936#3,3767
1935#3,1568
1934#2,28913
1933—
1932#3,0479
1931—
1930—
1929#3,1379
1928#3,7437
1927—
1926#4,3066
1925#3,3629
1924#4,0027
1923#3,3509
1922#3,3799
1921#4,4646
1920#3,5988
1919—
1918#3,02410
1917#4,0836
1916#3,5527
1915#4,2745
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1912#2,9795
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1910#1,9357
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First appearance
1910

The first year at least five girls were named Carlena! It came in at #1,935, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1911–1915, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Carlena is popular in 1910

No state had 5 or more girls named Carlena in 1910, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Carlena
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 205 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #10,917)
  • 2,536 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #10,917)
  • 1,436 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1910
  • Peaked 1910 at #1,935 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1911, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 34,711
  • Highest: 1 in 34,711 girls born in 1975 were named Carlena (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,935 in 1910, was only 1 in 56,643 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 15.9% of all girls named Carlena (227) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s40#1,935 (1910)#3,308
1920s70#3,137 (1929)#3,705
1930s62#2,289 (1934)#3,044
1940s90#2,046 (1942)#3,546
1950s111#2,453 (1956)#3,844
1960s191#2,543 (1961)#2,905
1970s227#2,060 (1975)#3,274
1980s207#3,066 (1981)#4,055
1990s174#4,236 (1992)#5,675
2000s125#6,208 (2000)#9,017
2010s97#6,207 (2014)#11,091
2020s32#10,917 (2025)#13,187

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Carlena in 1910

girls
#1,935
7 births · 1 in 56,643 girls

Top girls' names in 1910

  1. #1Mary22,848
  2. #2Helen10,479
  3. #3Margaret8,226
  4. #4Dorothy7,318
  5. #5Ruth7,212
  6. #6Anna6,436
  7. #7Elizabeth5,800
  8. #8Mildred5,692
  9. #9Marie4,790
  10. #10Alice4,671
  11. #1,935Carlena7
More about 1910

girls

396,503 girls got a published name in 1910; 1 in 56,643 of them was named Carlena, which outranked 30.6% of the 2,790 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Carlena
  1. #1,773Willetta8
  2. #1,773Zela8
  3. #1,773Zylpha8
  4. #1,935Carlena7
  5. #1,935Adelene7
  6. #1,935Aldora7
  7. #1,935Aleta7
  8. #2,140Abby6
  9. #2,140Adriana6
  10. #2,140Albirta6

Tied with 204 names at #1,935; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1909
Risers
  1. ↑ 960Alys#1,957 → #997
  2. ↑ 849Lannie#1,763 → #914
  3. ↑ 766Luz#1,763 → #997
  4. ↑ 762Vivien#1,607 → #845
  5. ↑ 693Buna#1,607 → #914
Fallers
  1. ↓ 864Earl#909 → #1,773
  2. ↓ 864Fleta#909 → #1,773
  3. ↓ 783Elba#990 → #1,773
  4. ↓ 644Odile#990 → #1,634
  5. ↓ 576Claribel#845 → #1,421

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1910 →