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Carolynne

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Carolynne has been given to 987 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1942, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Carolynne, 2018

1 in 502,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carolynne: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carolynne means

Carolynne is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Carolynne is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 987 girls were recorded with the name Carolynne between 1925 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1942; its best national rank was #1,351 in 1942.

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 Carolynne?

Carolynne 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 502,000
7 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 243,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
348,244 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carolynne 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 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carolynne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carolynnes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carolynne was born before 1958 — so the typical Carolynne is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
626
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1940s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (256).

Is Carolynne 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 1942 (36)
Years since peak
83
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,351
1942

Spellings of Carolynne

Carolynne is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 67.3% against Carolynne's 0.12%.

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 Carolynne is used

Across 1910–2025, Carolynne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 759,775 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 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. Carolynne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Carolynne around the world

Where Carolynne 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.

  • Scotland
    1977–1981
    #537
    in 1981
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,118
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1946–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carolynne 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
#1,351
1942
Peak year
1942
36 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
987
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carolynne

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

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Sibling names for Carolynne

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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