Name Awesome

Karolina

#1,267 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Carolus

Karolina has been given to 4,676 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #1,267 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 190 recorded.

Babies named Karolina, 2025

1 in 18,700

Karolina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karolina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Carolus

French and Latin

What Karolina means

Karolina is a feminine form of Carolus.

Origin, language, and formation

Karolina is used in English, Faroese, Polish and Swedish. Its origins include French and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carolus, Caroline and Karl.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Karolina is pronounced /ka.rɔˈli.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,676 girls were recorded with the name Karolina between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 190 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,256 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,626 in 2020 to #1,267 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,689 in 2015 to #1,267 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Karolina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,700
177 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,080
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,267
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karolina 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karolina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karolinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karolina was born before 2008 — so the typical Karolina is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,661
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (1,489).

Is Karolina 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
−11
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+359
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+422
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.2%
Peak was 2007 (190)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
12.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,256
2024

Spellings of Karolina

Karolina is not the most common spelling — Caroline is, with 63.9% against Karolina's 1.2%.

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 Karolina is used

Across 2016–2025, Karolina was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 8,899 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 5,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,263
  3. 3Florida1 in 6,250
  4. 4California1 in 8,333
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 11,111
  6. 6Arizona1 in 12,500
  7. 7New York1 in 12,500
  8. 8Washington1 in 14,286

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.

Karolina around the world

Where Karolina 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
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2007–2018
    #502
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2015
    #426
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2003–2024
    #736
    in 2024
  • France
    1926–2025
    #3,116
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2021
    #427
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Karolina

People whose public names include Karolina, 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.

Karolina in other languages

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

KaroleCarolinCarolynKarolynCarolinaCarolineCarolyneKarolineCarlijnKarlijnCarolienKaroliina

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

Karolina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,267
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 359
Best rank ever
#1,256
2024
Peak year
2007
190 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,676
Count in 2025
177

Names similar to Karolina

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

KarlinaKarleighKarolineKarinaKaralinaKarolynKarrinaCatarinaRosalinaKarishmaSerafinaKarterKarismaCaterinaAntoninaKarenaKaterinaKaralineKaralynnKaralynKatalinaKareenaKarminaKarmen

Names with a curve like Karolina

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

ZairaKaleaSaharaNoelaniKaliaYaneliDelanieCamdenNourChiaraEmaniSarahi

Sibling names for Karolina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Karolina

Top names of 2007, Karolina's peak yearThe 2000s in fullOther names that peaked in 2024Girls' names starting with KUncommon Polish Girl Names