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Coraline

#683 in 2025Girls' name

Coral, through Coralie

Coraline has been given to 6,786 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #683 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 527 recorded.

Babies named Coraline, 2025

1 in 8,010

Coraline over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coraline: meaning, origin, and history

Coral, through Coralie

coinages

What Coraline means

Coraline belongs to the name family reached through Coraline → Coralie → Coralie. Its meaning is “coral”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

An elaborate form of Coralie, itself derived from coral. Name of a character in Adolphe Adam's opera Le toréador.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Coraline (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Coraline is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Coraline is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Coralie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,786 girls were recorded with the name Coraline between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 527 in 2015; its best national rank was #579 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #647 in 2020 to #683 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #579 in 2015 to #683 in 2025.

How common is Coraline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,010
414 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,880
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#683
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,552 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coraline 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,552 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coraline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Coralines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coraline was born before 2018 — so the typical Coraline is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,786
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.4% of all recorded uses (4,166).

Is Coraline 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
+35
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−36
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−104
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.6%
Peak was 2015 (527)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
73.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#579
2015

Spellings of Coraline

Coraline is not the most common spelling — Caroline is, with 76.6% against Coraline's 2.1%.

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 Coraline is used

Across 2016–2025, Coraline was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 1,333 girls, against 1 in 3,210 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 14,286).

775 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 1,333
  2. 2Oregon1 in 1,429
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 1,613
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 1,724
  5. 5Ohio1 in 1,818
  6. 6Indiana1 in 1,887
  7. 7Missouri1 in 2,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 2,041

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.

Geographically, Coraline is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 43% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Coraline around the world

Where Coraline 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
    2011–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1954–2025
    #1,861
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Coraline

People whose public names include Coraline, 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.

Coraline in other languages

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

CoralieCaralineCarolineCoralinaCorlineCorelineCoroline

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

Coraline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#683
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 36
Best rank ever
#579
2015
Peak year
2015
527 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,786
Count in 2025
414

Names similar to Coraline

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

CorrineCorineCordeliaCorinnaCorrinaCorneliaCharlineEmmalineEmmelineGermaineSunshineMadalineCoralieDelphineCoraleeCorrieRosalineKarolineJoselineMarcelineJackelineCoralynnKathrineJazzmine

Names with a curve like Coraline

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

HenleyJemmaLivKinsleeTinsleyElliotAubrielleCharleighHadleeKensleyAubriellaAvalynn

Sibling names for Coraline

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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