Carmen

At the 2020 census, 2,889 Americans bore the surname Carmen — 10,586th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,889
Rank: 10,586th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Carmen described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 57.3%
Hispanic or Latino 27.8%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%

Notable people called Carmen

Eric Carmen (1949–2024)American singer-songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist
Julie Carmen (born 1954)actress, dancer turned psychotherapist
Ronnie del Carmen (born 1959)Filipino animator
Jeanne Carmen (1930–2007)American model, actress and trick golfer

People named Carmen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Carmen

Also a first name

Carmen has been given to 159,756 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1960. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.