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Karoline

#1,718 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Carolus

Karoline has been given to 3,862 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #1,718 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 139 recorded.

Babies named Karoline, 2025

1 in 27,900

Karoline over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Karoline: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Carolus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Karoline means

Karoline is a feminine form of Carolus.

Origin, language, and formation

Karoline is used in English, Danish, German and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Carolus and Caroline.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,862 girls were recorded with the name Karoline between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 139 in 2017; its best national rank was #1,576 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,429 in 2020 to #1,718 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,615 in 2015 to #1,718 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 Karoline?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,900
119 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,718
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Karoline 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 19,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Karoline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Karolines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Karoline was born before 2006 — so the typical Karoline is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,730
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Choose a decade

2010s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (1,115).

Is Karoline 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
+233
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+711
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−103
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.6%
Peak was 2017 (139)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,576
2017

Spellings of Karoline

Karoline is not the most common spelling — Caroline is, with 65.7% against Karoline's 1.0%.

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 Karoline is used

Across 2016–2025, Karoline was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 16,500 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

116 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 6,250
  2. 2Florida1 in 9,091
  3. 3Alabama1 in 10,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 10,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 10,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 12,500
  7. 7California1 in 25,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 25,000

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.

Karoline around the world

Where Karoline 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
    2002–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–1982
    #530
    in 1982
  • Ireland
    1980–1980
    #483
    in 1980
  • France
    1972–2009
    #4,085
    in 2009
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #219
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1965–2002
    #475
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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 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 Karoline

People whose public names include Karoline, 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.

Karoline in other languages

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

KaroleCarolinCarolynKarolynCarolinaCarolineCarolyneKarolinaCarlijnKarlijnCarolienKarolínaKaroliinaKaroliine

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

Karoline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,718
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 711
Best rank ever
#1,576
2017
Peak year
2017
139 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,862
Count in 2025
119

Names similar to Karoline

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

KaralineKarineKarolinaKarleighKarolynJoselineRosalineKarishmaKarismaMadalineKarenaKaralynnKaralynSunshineKarterKareenaJazzmineEmmelineCharlineCoralineKarizmaKarelyKarimeEmmaline

Names with a curve like Karoline

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

JosephinaJoleeKerenRochelSabineLainaZaidaDanniMalinaEllyJesslynSerene

Sibling names for Karoline

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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