Meaning not yet researched.
Carolina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 769 in 2025. Its best rank was #254 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #254 in 2004; #405 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carolina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#405 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #254.
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Carolina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 769 girls in 2025. Peak: #254 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 1,270 (2004).
In 2025, 769 US girls were named Carolina, making it the 405th most common girls’ name of the year, up 24 places from #429 in 2024. That is 51 more than the 718 girls named Carolina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #254, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,270. For comparison, it was #432 in 2015 and #869 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carolina in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 48,108 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 11,073 babies named Carolina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,167 US girls were named Carolina; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 775. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,090 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Carolina ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #167 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Carolyn (558,397 babies since 1880), Caroline (250,719 babies since 1880), Karolyn (5,957 babies since 1880) and Karolina (4,676 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carlina, Carolena and Carolyna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Asturian, Catalan, Dutch, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carlina (1,184), Carolena (478), Carolyna (185), Karalina (175), Karolyna (163), Caralina (110), Caroleena (89), Coralina (53), Caralena (49), Caroletta (20), Karolena (14).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carolina in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 196 | #167 | #181 |
| California | 137 | #243 | #357 |
| South Carolina | 17 | #300 | #321 |
| Arizona | 23 | #308 | #224 |
| Florida | 59 | #313 | #251 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #317 | #338 |
| Illinois | 33 | #326 | #424 |
| Nevada | 8 | #342 | #558 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #360 | #324 |
| Washington | 18 | #394 | #526 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #429 | #481 |
| Georgia | 25 | #456 | #425 |
| Colorado | 12 | #469 | #486 |
| Alabama | 10 | #488 | #629 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #509 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #530 | #485 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #551 | #342 |
| Maryland | 9 | #560 | #919 |
| Oregon | 6 | #567 | #705 |
| Virginia | 13 | #581 | #463 |
| Kansas | 5 | #600 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #656 | #555 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #675 | — |
| New York | 24 | #682 | #737 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #727 | #532 |
| Indiana | 8 | #738 | #980 |
| Michigan | 10 | #747 | #1,323 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #799 | #918 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #814 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #944 | #833 |
| Missouri | 5 | #964 | #987 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,167 | #798 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 769 | #405 | — | — |
| 2024 | 718 | #429 | — | — |
| 2023 | 730 | #421 | — | — |
| 2022 | 664 | #477 | — | — |
| 2021 | 609 | #511 | — | — |
| 2020 | 684 | #450 | — | — |
| 2019 | 756 | #415 | — | — |
| 2018 | 740 | #420 | — | — |
| 2017 | 722 | #439 | — | — |
| 2016 | 775 | #421 | — | — |
| 2015 | 732 | #432 | — | — |
| 2014 | 788 | #407 | — | — |
| 2013 | 712 | #428 | — | — |
| 2012 | 723 | #432 | — | — |
| 2011 | 729 | #430 | — | — |
| 2010 | 822 | #389 | — | — |
| 2009 | 828 | #387 | — | — |
| 2008 | 925 | #357 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,020 | #329 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,196 | #280 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,133 | #291 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,270 | #254 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,216 | #262 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,074 | #289 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,207 | #265 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,204 | #267 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,036 | #298 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,011 | #299 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,073 | #272 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,054 | #275 | 5 | #9,208 |
| 1995 | 989 | #279 | 6 | #7,942 |
| 1994 | 1,049 | #268 | 5 | #8,994 |
| 1993 | 949 | #292 | 6 | #7,766 |
| 1992 | 917 | #304 | — | — |
| 1991 | 860 | #314 | 8 | #6,026 |
| 1990 | 910 | #302 | 7 | #6,506 |
| 1989 | 794 | #320 | 16 | #3,473 |
| 1988 | 524 | #434 | — | — |
| 1987 | 481 | #458 | 6 | #6,206 |
| 1986 | 466 | #461 | 8 | #4,915 |
| 1985 | 404 | #504 | 9 | #4,379 |
| 1984 | 377 | #515 | — | — |
| 1983 | 422 | #473 | 6 | #5,590 |
| 1982 | 398 | #507 | 9 | #4,278 |
| 1981 | 435 | #484 | 5 | #6,411 |
| 1980 | 455 | #467 | 6 | #5,617 |
| 1979 | 436 | #463 | 7 | #4,917 |
| 1978 | 399 | #486 | — | — |
| 1977 | 269 | #624 | — | — |
| 1976 | 248 | #627 | — | — |
| 1975 | 247 | #634 | — | — |
| 1974 | 199 | #722 | — | — |
| 1973 | 227 | #655 | — | — |
| 1972 | 166 | #813 | — | — |
| 1971 | 189 | #769 | — | — |
| 1970 | 213 | #718 | — | — |
| 1969 | 173 | #776 | — | — |
| 1968 | 185 | #717 | — | — |
| 1967 | 161 | #780 | — | — |
| 1966 | 193 | #705 | — | — |
| 1965 | 194 | #705 | — | — |
| 1964 | 227 | #677 | — | — |
| 1963 | 173 | #787 | — | — |
| 1962 | 172 | #795 | — | — |
| 1961 | 166 | #815 | — | — |
| 1960 | 143 | #865 | — | — |
| 1959 | 101 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1958 | 105 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1957 | 127 | #903 | — | — |
| 1956 | 107 | #979 | — | — |
| 1955 | 103 | #984 | — | — |
| 1954 | 109 | #922 | — | — |
| 1953 | 126 | #826 | — | — |
| 1952 | 108 | #888 | — | — |
| 1951 | 113 | #840 | — | — |
| 1950 | 104 | #869 | — | — |
| 1949 | 115 | #813 | — | — |
| 1948 | 114 | #810 | — | — |
| 1947 | 128 | #759 | — | — |
| 1946 | 119 | #750 | — | — |
| 1945 | 114 | #697 | — | — |
| 1944 | 124 | #664 | 6 | #3,156 |
| 1943 | 131 | #663 | — | — |
| 1942 | 81 | #853 | — | — |
| 1941 | 98 | #707 | 5 | #3,572 |
| 1940 | 78 | #803 | — | — |
| 1939 | 95 | #698 | — | — |
| 1938 | 101 | #682 | — | — |
| 1937 | 107 | #658 | — | — |
| 1936 | 94 | #686 | — | — |
| 1935 | 97 | #675 | 6 | #3,313 |
| 1934 | 104 | #656 | — | — |
| 1933 | 117 | #598 | — | — |
| 1932 | 112 | #633 | — | — |
| 1931 | 110 | #632 | — | — |
| 1930 | 132 | #600 | — | — |
| 1929 | 153 | #551 | 6 | #3,608 |
| 1928 | 145 | #587 | — | — |
| 1927 | 125 | #643 | — | — |
| 1926 | 120 | #660 | — | — |
| 1925 | 145 | #602 | — | — |
| 1924 | 144 | #626 | 5 | #4,445 |
| 1923 | 128 | #654 | — | — |
| 1922 | 118 | #672 | — | — |
| 1921 | 137 | #629 | — | — |
| 1920 | 132 | #623 | — | — |
| 1919 | 109 | #666 | — | — |
| 1918 | 98 | #725 | — | — |
| 1917 | 102 | #677 | — | — |
| 1916 | 111 | #642 | — | — |
| 1915 | 100 | #662 | — | — |
| 1914 | 77 | #661 | — | — |
| 1913 | 58 | #679 | — | — |
| 1912 | 63 | #621 | — | — |
| 1911 | 56 | #573 | — | — |
| 1910 | 43 | #646 | — | — |
| 1909 | 39 | #624 | — | — |
| 1908 | 45 | #558 | — | — |
| 1907 | 33 | #654 | — | — |
| 1906 | 44 | #520 | — | — |
| 1905 | 30 | #643 | — | — |
| 1904 | 44 | #494 | — | — |
| 1903 | 32 | #575 | — | — |
| 1902 | 31 | #594 | — | — |
| 1901 | 37 | #500 | — | — |
| 1900 | 40 | #533 | — | — |
| 1899 | 15 | #844 | — | — |
| 1898 | 24 | #666 | — | — |
| 1897 | 17 | #763 | — | — |
| 1896 | 28 | #578 | — | — |
| 1895 | 35 | #493 | — | — |
| 1894 | 34 | #487 | — | — |
| 1893 | 24 | #576 | — | — |
| 1892 | 28 | #510 | — | — |
| 1891 | 21 | #574 | — | — |
| 1890 | 23 | #549 | — | — |
| 1889 | 27 | #477 | — | — |
| 1888 | 24 | #513 | — | — |
| 1887 | 19 | #514 | — | — |
| 1886 | 25 | #432 | — | — |
| 1885 | 18 | #504 | — | — |
| 1884 | 13 | #588 | — | — |
| 1883 | 20 | #423 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #601 | — | — |
| 1881 | 10 | #544 | — | — |
| 1880 | 13 | #470 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).