Carrolyn
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Carrolyn has been given to 288 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 26 recorded.
Babies named Carrolyn, 1981
1 in 692,000
Carrolyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Carrolyn?
Carrolyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 692,000
- 5 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 334,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,538 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Carrolyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carrolyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Carrolyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Carrolyn was born before 1947 — so the typical Carrolyn is around 78 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 95
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (157).
Is Carrolyn 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
- —
- 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 1942 (26)
- Years since peak
- 83
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.7% average annual change
Spellings of Carrolyn
Carrolyn is not the most common spelling — Carolyn is, with 94.1% against Carrolyn's 0.05%.
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 Carrolyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Carrolyn was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,046,820 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Carrolyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Carrolyn around the world
Where Carrolyn 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.
- South Australia1950–1968#679in 1968
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Carrolyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Carrolyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Carrolyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.