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Carline

Girls' name

Variant of Caroline

Carline has been given to 1,661 babies in the U.S. since 1898. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1949, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Carline, 2008

1 in 491,000

Carline over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carline: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Caroline

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carline means

Carline is a variant of Caroline.

Origin, language, and formation

Carline is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caroline.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Carline is pronounced /ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,656 girls were recorded with the name Carline between 1898 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1949; its best national rank was #1,476 in 1941.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Carline between 1920 and 1920. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1920; its best national rank was #4,385 in 1920.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carline?

Carline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 491,000
8 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 236,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
340,573 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carline 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 2008 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 340,573 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carline was born before 1953 — so the typical Carline is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
14.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
906
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 14.6% of all recorded uses (242).

Is Carline 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1949 (35)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,476
1941

Spellings of Carline

Carline is not the most common spelling — Carrie is, with 14.4% against Carline's 0.09%.

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 Carline is used

Across 1910–2025, Carline was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 238,538 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Maine1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Carline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carline around the world

Where Carline 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
    1954–2019
    #4,961
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,149
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1944–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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.

Carline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,476
1941
Peak year
1949
35 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
1,656
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,385
1920
Peak year
1920
5 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1920
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carline

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

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Sibling names for Carline

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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