Carlena
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/kaɾlena/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Carlena is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 303K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 188K (inferred from the name graph)
1,097 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Carlena 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,097 | 1 in 303K | 1.1K | Carlena | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 191 | 1 in 1.1M | 203 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Carlena | 8 |
1,097 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,620 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 203 | #13,876 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 191 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 191 | #26,287 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 171 | #27,596 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 159 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 115 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 48 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 32 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Carlena?
- In Spanish /kaɾlena/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Carlena a male or female name?
- Carlena is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- In which country does Carlena have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Carlena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carlena.
- Where is Carlena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carlena is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 188 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carlena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,097 people named Carlena in 2020, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Carlena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carlenaThe 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, “Carlena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.