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Carlina

#13,522 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Carlina has been given to 1,184 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #13,522 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Carlina, 2025

1 in 553,000

Carlina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carlina: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carlina means

Carlina is a given name.

The naming story behind Carlina

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Carlina in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 386.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Ital. Teu. man”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Carlina, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,184 girls were recorded with the name Carlina between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2012; its best national rank was #2,940 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,055 in 2020 to #13,522 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,344 in 2015 to #13,522 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Carlina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,522
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carlina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlina was born before 1992 — so the typical Carlina is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
20.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,179
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Choose a decade

2000s — 20.9% of all recorded uses (248).

Is Carlina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+285
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,467
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,178
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.8%
Peak was 2012 (32)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,940
1976

Spellings of Carlina

Carlina is not the most common spelling — Caroline is, with 26.7% against Carlina's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Carlina is used

Across 1910–2025, Carlina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 590,713 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Carlina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carlina around the world

Where Carlina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1998–2017
    #6,362
    in 2017
  • Canada
    1995–1999
    #2,199
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1976–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carlina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,522
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,467
Best rank ever
#2,940
1976
Peak year
2012
32 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,184
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Carlina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Carlina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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