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Carlene

As a girl's name, Carlene is understood to mean "Feminine of Carl/Charles". It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

EtymologyFeminine of Carl/Charles
EtymologyMeaning "free man"
Births by decade
1900s
40
1910s
305
1920s
839
1930s
2,273
1940s
3,025
1950s
3,300
1960s
2,390
1970s
1,028
1980s
788
1990s
582
2000s
406
2010s
149
Peaked in the 1950s · 15,125 total U.S. births since 1900