Karmen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., eindeutschende Schreib weise von
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑɹmɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karmen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 76th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 150as Carmen(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4Kas Carmen
- SISlovenia1 in 481
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Karmen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- 1 in 481 (inferred from the name graph)
333,187 named Carmen
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carmen in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom., eindeutschende Schreib weise von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karmen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #849 | 333,187as Carmen | 1 in 150 | 358K | Karmen | 50 |
| US United States | — | 237,758as Carmen | 1 in 1.4K | 229K | Karmen | 321 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 139,032as Carmen | 1 in 122 | 139K | Carmen | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 48,068as Carmen | 1 in 4.4K | 57K | Karmen | 39 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 14,629as Carmen | 1 in 348 | 15K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | #76 | 4,371 | 1 in 481 | 4.4K | Karmen | 46 |
333,187 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling carmen. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SURS — resident population given names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Karmen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Estonian, a female given name derived from Spanish Carmen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of karm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, " Karmendu nau, ta karmen aundia eman dit (V-gip), kalte egin ta kalte aundia" Inza EsZarr 169. v. karmenatu (3).
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karmen Rouggerib. 1944GRGreek actor, director and playwright
- Karmen Kenda-Ježb. 1962SISlovene linguist and translator
- Karmen Škuljb. 1967SISlovenian tennis player
- Karmen Stavecb. 1973SISlovenian singer
- Karmen Macheriotoub. 1986CYCypriot cyclist
- Karmen Marb. 1987SIchess player
- Karmen Pedarub. 1990EEEstonian model (born 1990)
- Karmen Karmab. 1991USAmerican pornographic actress
- Karmen Petrovicb. 1995BACanadian professional wrestler (born 1995)
- Karmen Bruusb. 2005EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 2005)
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)
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)
Attested in 62 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.2K | #3,353 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 4.4K | #57 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 4.4K | #120 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 451 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 449 | #14,373 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 310 | #19,396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 117 | #3,353 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 110 | #14,693 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 108 | #6,590 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 105 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 are other forms of the name Karmen?
- In the etymology graph, Carmen, Carmela and Carmelita are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Karmen?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹmɛn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Karmen mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., eindeutschende Schreib weise von
- Is Karmen a male or female name?
- Karmen 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.
- In which country does Karmen have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 333 thousand people named Carmen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Karmen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karmen is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 481 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karmen?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 4,371 people named Karmen in 2025, about 1 in 481 residents.
- How common is Karmen compared with other names?
- In Spain, Karmen is the 849th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karmenThe 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, “Karmen” — the 849th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.