# Karmen (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/karmen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,287 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15 / 7,272 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 155, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 226 | 1,087 |
| 2012 | 205 | 1,199 |
| 2013 | 222 | 1,102 |
| 2014 | 199 | 1,231 |
| 2015 | 186 | 1,295 |
| 2016 | 215 | 1,171 |
| 2017 | 192 | 1,242 |
| 2018 | 184 | 1,258 |
| 2019 | 166 | 1,363 |
| 2020 | 168 | 1,313 |
| 2021 | 129 | 1,624 |
| 2022 | 122 | 1,716 |
| 2023 | 95 | 2,057 |
| 2024 | 97 | 2,023 |
| 2025 | 105 | 1,875 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | 9,595 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,497 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,265 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,966 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,843 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

## People named Karmen

- Karmen Pedaru, Estonian model (born 1990)
- Karmen Bruus, Estonian athletics competitor (born 2005)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.