Karmen

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Carmen in PE Peru, EC Ecuador, PL Poland and 4 more and Кармен in RU Russia, UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Karmen is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hungarian given name11K records spelled Karmen6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland, Estonia, Hungary

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Kármen, Kàrmen, Kârmèn

• a separate given name2.7K records spelled Karmen3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Slovenia

  Also written Karmēn, Kármen

• Polish given name1.6K records spelled Karmen2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Slovenia, Spain

  Also written Kàrmen

• Czech given name979 records spelled Karmen4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Kármen

• Lao given name332 records spelled Karmen16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Chile, United States, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Carmen, คาร์เมน, การ์เมน, คารเมน, Cärmën

• Italian given name183 records spelled Karmen2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, Slovenia

  Also written Kármen

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Karmen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Este niño también morirá

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Estonian, a female given name derived from Spanish Carmen

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of karm

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Basque, " Karmendu nau, ta karmen aundia eman dit (V-gip), kalte egin ta kalte aundia" Inza EsZarr 169. v. karmenatu (3).

  as a word·Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 91 years between 1935–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Karmen Rouggerib. 1944GRGreek actor, director and playwright
• Karmen Kenda-Ježb. 1962SISlovene linguist and translator
• Karmen Škuljb. 1967SISlovenian tennis player
• Karmen Stavecb. 1973SISlovenian singer
• Karmen Macheriotoub. 1986CYCypriot cyclist
• Karmen Marb. 1987SIchess player
• Karmen Pedarub. 1990EEEstonian model (born 1990)
• Karmen Karmab. 1991USAmerican pornographic actress
• Karmen Petrovicb. 1995BACanadian professional wrestler (born 1995)
• Karmen Bruusb. 2005EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 2005)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 318 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Karmen?

We estimate roughly 810 thousand people bear Karmen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.

In which country does Karmen have the most bearers?

We estimate about 333 thousand people bear Karmen in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled karmen.

Where is Karmen most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karmen is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 122 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.

How common is Karmen compared with other names?

In Croatia, Karmen is the 280th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Karmen a male or female name?

Karmen is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Karmen mean?

Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., eindeutschende Schreib­ weise von