Carmen: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced KAR-muhn · 2 syllables

From Spanish Carmen, cognate with English Carmel. Made famous outside Spain by the opera Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet.

How popular is Carmen?

Carmen was the #389 name in the US in 2025, given to 902 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 1960.

Babies named Carmen in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 1960).

Half of US adults named Carmen are older than 54; most are between 21 and 80. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Carmen have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Carmen is pronounced KAR-muhn.

Carmen was the #389 name in the US in 2025, given to 902 babies. Its use has been fairly steady over the last decade. It peaked around 1960.

Half of US adults named Carmen are older than 54. Most are between 21 and 80.