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Carmen
Pronounced /ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/
Rank in 2024
#416
Born in 2024
751
Peak year
1960 · #167
Origin
Italian, Spanish
Also recorded for boys:83 in 2024 (#1,909)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 751 girls were named Carmen, about 1 in every 2,148.
- It peaked in 1960 with 2,439 babies, ranked #167.
- It first shows up in the records in 1881.
- 141,984 girls have been named Carmen since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Carmen per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.8Silent1928–45
- 1.0Boomers1946–64
- 1.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 12,150 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Silent: 16,272 babies, 0.79 per 1,000. Boomers: 35,999 babies, 1.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 30,244 babies, 1.18 per 1,000. Millennials: 19,049 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Gen Z: 18,368 babies, 0.63 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,251 babies, 0.46 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Spanish Carmen, cognate with English Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet. ==== Proper noun ==== Carmen A female given name from Spanish [from 19th c.] A town in Oklahoma. An unincorporated community in Idaho. Synonym of Rosales: a municipality of Pangasinan, Philippines. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations =====
- A female given name from Spanish [from 19th c.]
- (dated, rare) A male given name from Italian.
- Origin
- Italian, Spanish
- Say it
- /ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Carmen, CC BY-SA 4.0.