Carlene

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Carlene is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages.

rarermore common
  • CACanada≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 20K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22K

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.

United States (measured from records)

11,283 people, 2020

Sources
370 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A female given name from the Germanic languages.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carlene 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.

Where Carlene is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—11,2831 in 29K11KCarlene370
BR Brazil—4,0201 in 53K4.4K—3
GB United Kingdom—≈3,000 est.≈1 in 22K3Carlene129
CA Canada—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 20K2Carlene125
IT Italy—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 45K1Carlene7
AU Australia—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 20K3Carlene100
JM Jamaica#134≈640 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Carlene20
NZ New Zealand#792≈300 est.≈1 in 16K12Carlene41
GY Guyana—871 in 8.6K87—4

11,283 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carlene is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, France, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, French

    Also written Carlène, Carléne, Cařlene

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Carlène

  • Greek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Carlène

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Carlene King Johnson, b. 1933Carlene Starkey, b. 1940Carlene Watkins, b. 1952Carlene Thompson, b. 1952Carlene Davis, b. 1953Carlene Carter, b. 1955Paula Nelson, b. 1969Jazz, b. 1973Carlene Aguilar, b. 1982

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 27 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Carlene mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from the Germanic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Carlene have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Carlene, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carlene.
Is Carlene a male or female name?
Carlene is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Carlene?
In the etymology graph, Carla, Karla and Carole are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Carlene?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,283 people named Carlene in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
How common is Carlene compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Carlene is the 134th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.

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The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Carlene” — the 134th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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