Carlen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Teutonic/Cornish: from the fort by the pool; Irish Gaelic: little champion; also hill where witches gather
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈkɑɹɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carlen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 458K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 6.2K
- BZBelize≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,638 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Teutonic/Cornish: from the fort by the pool; Irish Gaelic: little champion; also hill where witches gather.
Cited for this meaning 1
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Where in the world
(measured from records)Carlen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 1,638 | 1 in 6.2K | 1.6K | Carlen | 35 |
| US United States | 726 | 1 in 458K | 824 | Carlen | 197 |
| CH Switzerland | 222 | 1 in 38K | 222 | Carlen | 22 |
| FR France | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 367K | 31 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 539K | — | Carlen | 39 |
| FI Finland | 46 | 1 in 121K | 46 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 42 | 1 in 130K | 42 | — | 2 |
| BZ Belize | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Carlen | 1 |
1,638 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling carlén. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Claudia Carlenb. 1906Christian nun (1906-2004)
- Louis Carlenb. 1929CHSwiss legal scholar and politician
- Jim Carlenb. 1933USAmerican football player, coach, and administrator (1933–2012)
- Catherine Carlenb. 1953USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 824 | #30,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 791 | #28,407 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 726 | #31,790 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 222 | #5,738 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #29,360 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 21 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carlen mean, and where does it come from?
- Teutonic/Cornish: from the fort by the pool; Irish Gaelic: little champion; also hill where witches gather. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Carlen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɹɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Carlen have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Carlen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carlen.
- Where is Carlen most common?
- Carlen is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Carlen?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,638 people named Carlen, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carlenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carlen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.