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How popular is the name Carmen?
Births per year, rank history and how many Carmens are alive today.
Carmen (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 792nd in 2025 with 46 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2004, when 126 babies were given the name, the 318th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2012, with 117 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 940 in 2022 before climbing back to the 792nd place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Carmen you are most likely to meet is around 21 years old. Half of all Carmens born in England and Wales are between 13 and 27, and there are at least 2,700 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Carmen - on average, only one in every 117 such rooms contains a Carmen.
How many babies are named Carmen each year?
Where does Carmen rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Carmen most popular?
Carmen peaked in 2004, when 126 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Carmen?
At least 2,700 people named Carmen born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Carmen?
Most living Carmens are between 13 and 27; the most common age is about 21.
Is Carmen becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.