Karolann
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Karolann has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 1990, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Karolann, 1990
1 in 658,000
Karolann 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Karolann?
Karolann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 658,000
- 6 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 456,318 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Karolann sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karolann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Karolanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Karolann was born before 1990 — so the typical Karolann is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Karolann 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 1990 (6)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Karolann
Karolann is not the most common spelling — Carolynn is, with 22.0% against Karolann's 0.02%.
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.
Karolann around the world
Where Karolann 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.
- France1999–1999#3,972in 1999
- Canada1991–2009#2,869in 2009
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Karolann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Karolann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Karolann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.