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Carmen

Pronounced /ˈkɑː(ɹ)mən/

Rank in 2024
#1,909
Born in 2024
83
Peak year
1924 · #308
Origin
Italian, Spanish
Also recorded for girls:751 in 2024 (#416)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 83 boys were named Carmen, about 1 in every 20,666.
  • It peaked in 1924 with 344 babies, ranked #308.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1894.
  • 16,857 boys 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.

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 4,452 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Silent: 4,196 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,963 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,882 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,204 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 731 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 378 babies, 0.02 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.