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Carolyne

#10,256 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Carolyne has been given to 3,587 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #10,256 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1942, with 108 recorded.

Babies named Carolyne, 2025

1 in 368,000

Carolyne over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carolyne: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carolyne means

Carolyne is a given name.

The naming story behind Carolyne

Wikidata records Carolyne as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q18385139, 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, 3,587 girls were recorded with the name Carolyne between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 108 in 1942; its best national rank was #717 in 1942.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,632 in 2020 to #10,256 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,613 in 2015 to #10,256 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 Carolyne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,256
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carolyne 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carolyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carolynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carolyne was born before 1952 — so the typical Carolyne is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
22.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,909
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1940s — 22.7% of all recorded uses (813).

Is Carolyne 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
+3,555
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,624
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,643
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 1942 (108)
Years since peak
83
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#717
1942

Spellings of Carolyne

Carolyne is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 54.0% against Carolyne's 0.35%.

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 Carolyne is used

Across 1910–2025, Carolyne was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 180,448 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Kentucky1 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. Carolyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carolyne around the world

Where Carolyne 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
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1974–1987
    #582
    in 1987
  • France
    1955–2014
    #7,817
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #3,117
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1944–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Notable people named Carolyne

People whose public names include Carolyne, 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.

Carolyne in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Carolyne. Linked forms have their own page here.

CarolynKarolynCarolinaCarolineKarolinaKarolineCarlijnKarlijnCarolienKarolínaKaroliina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Carolyne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,256
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,624
Best rank ever
#717
1942
Peak year
1942
108 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,587
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Carolyne

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

CarolannCarleighCarolynnCarlottaCarriganCarlyneCarlotaCaralineMadelyneCarlettaCarmelitaJocelyneCaridadCarmelinaCarlenaCarlynCarlitaCarsynCarminaCarmellaCarringtonCarlinaCaralynCarolena

Names with a curve like Carolyne

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

MaryleeRuthanneIlonaJonnieHedyRuthannMarylinCarrollElidaCarrolErlindaMarilou

Sibling names for Carolyne

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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