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Carolanne

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Carolanne has been given to 1,171 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1989, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Carolanne, 2018

1 in 586,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carolanne: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carolanne means

Carolanne is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Carolanne is used in French.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Carolanne is pronounced /ka.ʁɔ.lan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,171 girls were recorded with the name Carolanne between 1934 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,701 in 1944.

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 Carolanne?

Carolanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carolanne 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carolanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carolannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carolanne was born before 1973 — so the typical Carolanne is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
19.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
928
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 19.6% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Carolanne 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1989 (30)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,701
1944

Spellings of Carolanne

Carolanne is not the most common spelling — Caroline is, with 93.1% against Carolanne's 0.44%.

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 Carolanne is used

Across 1910–2025, Carolanne was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 281,874 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Carolanne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carolanne around the world

Where Carolanne 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
    1996–2010
    #5,707
    in 2010
  • Scotland
    1974–1996
    #611
    in 1996
  • France
    1986–2011
    #7,661
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #2,554
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1947–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carolanne 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,701
1944
Peak year
1989
30 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
1,171
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carolanne

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

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Sibling names for Carolanne

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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