Carleen

Where Carleen comes from

Carleen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1908
    First appearance
    #1,862 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1911
    Carleen Hutchins born
    American inventor
  3. 1949
    Peak, #650
    163 babies named Carleen — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1957
    Carleen Anderson born
    American soul singer
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,399.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Carleen Hutchins · American inventor, 1911–2009
  • Carleen Anderson · American soul singer, born 1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.