The Carlen surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 726 people carried this name — #31,790 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 400,000 people counted. That is down 8% from 791 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
220 people named Carlen live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Valais.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 109 people named Carlen live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 98 people named Carlen.
2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
1,500 people named Carlen is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Carlen,
with a public archive behind them.
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Jim Carlen 1933–2012 · American football player -
Claudia Carlen 1906–2004 · Christian nun
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Robert Carlen 1906–1990
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Louis Carlen 1929–2022 · university teacher
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Pat Carlen 1939– · university teacher
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Georg Carlen 1946– · art historian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Carlen.
- Carita 161 · U.S. census
- Carite 102 · U.S. census
- Carl 11,689 · U.S. census
- Carla 116 · U.S. census
- Carlat 111 · U.S. census
- Carle 3,410 · U.S. census
- Carles 373 · U.S. census
- Carletti 232 · U.S. census
- Carletto 111 · U.S. census
- Carli 798 · U.S. census
- Carlier 274 · U.S. census
- Carlin 12,035 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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