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Carolann

#15,373 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Carolann has been given to 5,652 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #15,373 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1946, with 254 recorded.

Babies named Carolann, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carolann: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carolann means

Carolann is a given name.

The naming story behind Carolann

Wikidata records Carolann as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q111911781, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,652 girls were recorded with the name Carolann between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 254 in 1946; its best national rank was #466 in 1945.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,395 in 2020 to #15,373 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,345 in 2015 to #15,373 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 Carolann?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,373
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carolann 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carolann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carolanns were born

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

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,263
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (1,995).

Is Carolann 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
−2,963
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,978
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−8,028
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.31×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.0%
Peak was 1946 (254)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#466
1945

Spellings of Carolann

Carolann is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 63.5% against Carolann's 0.64%.

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 Carolann is used

Across 1910–2025, Carolann was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 27,305 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 8,333
  2. 2New York1 in 8,333
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 11,111
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 14,286
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8California1 in 100,000

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. Carolann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carolann around the world

Where Carolann 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2009
    #5,556
    in 2009
  • Scotland
    1974–2001
    #627
    in 2001
  • Ireland
    1989–1989
    #445
    in 1989
  • France
    1985–2007
    #3,471
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #2,743
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1945–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Carolann

People whose public names include Carolann, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Carolann by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,373
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,978
Best rank ever
#466
1945
Peak year
1946
254 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,652
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Carolann

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

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Names with a curve like Carolann

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Carolann, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Carolann

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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