How Many People Are Named Karlene?
people named Karlene are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 108,091 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,167 babies named Karlene in Social Security records from 1913 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
104 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of CARLENE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Karlene in English. Counting Karlene and these spellings together, about 13,237 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Karlene in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Karlene alive today is about 57 years old, and 54% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 43 and 72 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Karlene first appears in the records in 1913 and was given most often in 1959, to 104 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1913 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Karlene has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #786, in 1939.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #786 (1939) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,105 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Karlene alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Karlene were born in California than in any other state: about 208 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Karlene was given 3.6 times as often in Iowa, 3.4 times in Washington and 3.2 times in Minnesota.
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