Meaning not yet researched.
Caroline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,646 in 2025. Its best rank was #55 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #55 in 2017; #96 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caroline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#96 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #55.
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Caroline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,646 girls in 2025. Peak: #55 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 5,022 (2000).
In 2025, 2,646 US girls were named Caroline, making it the 96th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #92 in 2024. That is 84 fewer than the 2,730 girls named Caroline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #55, reached in 2017. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,022, in 2000. For comparison, it was #62 in 2015 and #257 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caroline in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 306 babies with the name. In all, 250,719 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 41,897 babies named Caroline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 34,660 US girls were named Caroline; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,437. In 2025 that was about 1 in 607 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Caroline ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #20 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 22 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Carolyn (558,397 babies since 1880), Carolina (48,108 babies since 1880), Coraline (6,786 babies since 1880) and Karolyn (5,957 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carline, Carolanne and Caraline are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Carol, Carole, Carrie, Cassie and Lynn.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Carline (1,661), Carolanne (1,171), Caraline (1,108), Karaline (779), Carolette (29).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 6 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 103 | #20 | #13 |
| District of Columbia | 18 | #21 | #7 |
| Tennessee | 139 | #31 | #26 |
| Arkansas | 48 | #35 | #34 |
| Kentucky | 76 | #39 | #29 |
| Louisiana | 63 | #44 | #15 |
| South Carolina | 72 | #45 | #12 |
| North Carolina | 162 | #48 | #21 |
| Georgia | 135 | #50 | #27 |
| Mississippi | 34 | #50 | #28 |
| Virginia | 99 | #58 | #18 |
| Missouri | 76 | #63 | #52 |
| Indiana | 82 | #68 | #53 |
| Maryland | 52 | #76 | #38 |
| Nebraska | 24 | #78 | #73 |
| West Virginia | 16 | #93 | #56 |
| Texas | 296 | #95 | #56 |
| Ohio | 102 | #95 | #57 |
| Pennsylvania | 99 | #98 | #69 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | #98 | #59 |
| Maine | 10 | #100 | #88 |
| Oklahoma | 36 | #100 | #69 |
| Massachusetts | 52 | #102 | #37 |
| Wisconsin | 45 | #105 | #110 |
| Connecticut | 27 | #105 | #54 |
| Montana | 9 | #107 | — |
| Iowa | 27 | #119 | #80 |
| Kansas | 26 | #122 | #67 |
| Delaware | 7 | #125 | #57 |
| Minnesota | 40 | #131 | #108 |
| Michigan | 63 | #132 | #136 |
| Florida | 124 | #143 | #99 |
| Illinois | 67 | #147 | #85 |
| Colorado | 39 | #148 | #67 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #155 | #32 |
| Utah | 28 | #158 | #100 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #166 | #114 |
| New York | 82 | #206 | #89 |
| Washington | 34 | #211 | #132 |
| New Jersey | 34 | #241 | #137 |
| Nevada | 11 | #244 | #169 |
| Oregon | 15 | #245 | #148 |
| Idaho | 9 | #253 | #222 |
| California | 99 | #328 | #157 |
| Arizona | 21 | #331 | #142 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,646 | #96 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,730 | #92 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,868 | #83 | — | — |
| 2022 | 3,030 | #77 | — | — |
| 2021 | 3,204 | #80 | — | — |
| 2020 | 3,364 | #71 | — | — |
| 2019 | 3,920 | #61 | — | — |
| 2018 | 4,167 | #56 | — | — |
| 2017 | 4,294 | #55 | — | — |
| 2016 | 4,437 | #56 | — | — |
| 2015 | 4,333 | #62 | — | — |
| 2014 | 4,348 | #59 | 6 | #10,939 |
| 2013 | 3,983 | #63 | — | — |
| 2012 | 3,421 | #80 | — | — |
| 2011 | 3,370 | #87 | — | — |
| 2010 | 3,360 | #88 | — | — |
| 2009 | 3,624 | #87 | — | — |
| 2008 | 3,545 | #94 | 12 | #6,818 |
| 2007 | 3,409 | #99 | — | — |
| 2006 | 3,791 | #89 | — | — |
| 2005 | 3,974 | #83 | 7 | #9,274 |
| 2004 | 4,379 | #74 | 13 | #5,860 |
| 2003 | 4,585 | #68 | — | — |
| 2002 | 4,657 | #67 | — | — |
| 2001 | 4,864 | #62 | 8 | #7,633 |
| 2000 | 5,022 | #65 | 7 | #8,317 |
| 1999 | 4,474 | #71 | 6 | #8,860 |
| 1998 | 4,276 | #75 | 6 | #8,630 |
| 1997 | 4,439 | #75 | 5 | #9,478 |
| 1996 | 4,466 | #78 | — | — |
| 1995 | 3,799 | #92 | — | — |
| 1994 | 3,452 | #94 | 7 | #7,066 |
| 1993 | 3,083 | #105 | — | — |
| 1992 | 3,176 | #105 | 7 | #6,763 |
| 1991 | 2,843 | #116 | — | — |
| 1990 | 2,819 | #116 | 14 | #4,000 |
| 1989 | 2,661 | #113 | 30 | #2,251 |
| 1988 | 2,326 | #122 | 8 | #5,265 |
| 1987 | 2,047 | #135 | 11 | #4,002 |
| 1986 | 1,802 | #157 | 5 | #6,870 |
| 1985 | 1,751 | #164 | 5 | #6,671 |
| 1984 | 1,633 | #167 | 10 | #3,957 |
| 1983 | 1,482 | #183 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,537 | #178 | 7 | #5,094 |
| 1981 | 1,391 | #193 | 9 | #4,196 |
| 1980 | 1,313 | #200 | 5 | #6,382 |
| 1979 | 1,354 | #198 | 5 | #6,179 |
| 1978 | 1,308 | #201 | 5 | #5,921 |
| 1977 | 1,204 | #210 | — | — |
| 1976 | 1,224 | #197 | 9 | #3,754 |
| 1975 | 1,232 | #198 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,196 | #212 | 7 | #4,241 |
| 1973 | 1,112 | #229 | 8 | #3,751 |
| 1972 | 1,071 | #251 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,215 | #241 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,371 | #229 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,352 | #224 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,411 | #215 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,449 | #210 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,551 | #202 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,815 | #187 | 5 | #3,989 |
| 1964 | 2,106 | #179 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,689 | #208 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,989 | #186 | 5 | #4,125 |
| 1961 | 2,198 | #176 | 6 | #3,694 |
| 1960 | 1,210 | #254 | 5 | #4,114 |
| 1959 | 1,044 | #274 | — | — |
| 1958 | 990 | #282 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,137 | #253 | — | — |
| 1956 | 702 | #329 | — | — |
| 1955 | 742 | #315 | — | — |
| 1954 | 771 | #302 | — | — |
| 1953 | 885 | #280 | — | — |
| 1952 | 916 | #263 | — | — |
| 1951 | 919 | #254 | — | — |
| 1950 | 879 | #257 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,001 | #235 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,080 | #226 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,150 | #220 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,091 | #214 | — | — |
| 1945 | 1,013 | #197 | — | — |
| 1944 | 1,213 | #178 | — | — |
| 1943 | 1,353 | #171 | — | — |
| 1942 | 1,390 | #168 | 5 | #3,637 |
| 1941 | 1,173 | #174 | — | — |
| 1940 | 1,161 | #172 | 8 | #2,696 |
| 1939 | 1,005 | #186 | 5 | #3,558 |
| 1938 | 1,115 | #181 | — | — |
| 1937 | 1,094 | #181 | 7 | #2,947 |
| 1936 | 1,075 | #177 | — | — |
| 1935 | 1,048 | #178 | — | — |
| 1934 | 1,069 | #174 | — | — |
| 1933 | 1,050 | #173 | — | — |
| 1932 | 1,103 | #174 | 6 | #3,422 |
| 1931 | 1,125 | #165 | — | — |
| 1930 | 1,160 | #172 | 5 | #4,078 |
| 1929 | 1,192 | #171 | — | — |
| 1928 | 1,189 | #175 | 8 | #3,113 |
| 1927 | 1,167 | #179 | — | — |
| 1926 | 1,217 | #174 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,193 | #185 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,302 | #175 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1,304 | #173 | 5 | #4,328 |
| 1922 | 1,269 | #176 | — | — |
| 1921 | 1,425 | #162 | — | — |
| 1920 | 1,436 | #159 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,296 | #169 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 1918 | 1,458 | #154 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,368 | #152 | — | — |
| 1916 | 1,385 | #144 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,402 | #137 | — | — |
| 1914 | 989 | #148 | 7 | #2,688 |
| 1913 | 805 | #149 | — | — |
| 1912 | 785 | #139 | — | — |
| 1911 | 550 | #146 | — | — |
| 1910 | 553 | #146 | — | — |
| 1909 | 443 | #157 | — | — |
| 1908 | 449 | #150 | — | — |
| 1907 | 437 | #151 | — | — |
| 1906 | 409 | #144 | — | — |
| 1905 | 407 | #146 | — | — |
| 1904 | 429 | #136 | — | — |
| 1903 | 389 | #141 | — | — |
| 1902 | 452 | #126 | — | — |
| 1901 | 406 | #125 | — | — |
| 1900 | 455 | #135 | — | — |
| 1899 | 393 | #124 | — | — |
| 1898 | 441 | #122 | — | — |
| 1897 | 456 | #112 | — | — |
| 1896 | 437 | #110 | — | — |
| 1895 | 484 | #105 | — | — |
| 1894 | 473 | #103 | — | — |
| 1893 | 483 | #99 | — | — |
| 1892 | 476 | #100 | — | — |
| 1891 | 402 | #100 | 5 | #995 |
| 1890 | 455 | #94 | — | — |
| 1889 | 491 | #84 | — | — |
| 1888 | 458 | #89 | — | — |
| 1887 | 398 | #84 | — | — |
| 1886 | 370 | #92 | — | — |
| 1885 | 399 | #78 | — | — |
| 1884 | 380 | #78 | — | — |
| 1883 | 321 | #86 | — | — |
| 1882 | 304 | #85 | — | — |
| 1881 | 316 | #73 | — | — |
| 1880 | 306 | #75 | — | — |
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).