Carlene

Where Carlene comes from

A 20th-century coinage from Carl and the ending -ene, -lene, as in Marlene and Charlene.
— Wiktionary's entry for Carlene
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,592 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1936
    Peak, #378
    285 babies named Carlene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1952
    Carlene Thompson born
    American suspense novelist
  4. 1955
    Carlene Carter born
    American country singer-songwriter
  5. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #919.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Carlene Carter · American country singer-songwriter, born 1955
  • Carlene Thompson · American suspense novelist, born 1952
  • Carlene King Johnson · American model, 1933–1969
  • Carlene Aguilar · Filipina actress and beauty pageant titleholder, born 1982
  • Carlene Starkey · badminton player, born 1940

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.