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Carlens

Gender
Boy
Say it
kar-LENZ
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#4,538 for boys

Carlens is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,538th for boys in the US (22 babies).

What does Carlens mean?

Modern: Haitian coinage, apparently built on Carl

Used mainly in Haitian families.

Is Carlens a girl's or a boy's name?

Carlens is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Carlens in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,538among boys
Babies in 2025
22about 1 in 78,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 148% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 22 boys in the US were named Carlens, making it the 4,538th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. It first appears in the records in 2010.

2025 had the most boys named Carlens of any year since it first appeared, in 2010.

Half of all the boys named Carlens in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

2010Busiest: 22 in 20252025
Carlens in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202522#4,538
202415#5,899
202315#5,922
202214#6,141
20210–
20206#10,599
20197#9,750
20188#8,813
20179#8,136
20160–
20155#12,080
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20105#12,224

Names like Carlens

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Carlens: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/carlens, updated 20 October 2026.