girls:
147 births since 1940
#5569 (3rd percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1991
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
163 births since 1940
#7576 (2nd percentile)
The name Karlen is the #7,576 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 163 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,569 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 147 births since 1940. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1991.
Karlen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1991 for boys). Birth data for Karlen is available in 26 out of the 76 years between 1940 and 2015 (24 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Karlen has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Karlen reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #854) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
For boys, Karlen reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #759) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karlen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Karlen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Karlen is pronounced as KAHR-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-lehn, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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