Meaning not yet researched.
Carolyne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #717 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #717 in 1942; #10,260 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carolyne in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,260 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #717.
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Carolyne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #717 in 1942 · most girls in one year: 108 (1942).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Carolyne, making it the 10,260th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,556 places from #13,816 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 6 girls named Carolyne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #717, reached in 1942. That year also had the most girls given the name: 108. For comparison, it was #4,614 in 2015 and #1,213 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carolyne in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 3,587 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 813 babies named Carolyne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 146 US girls were named Carolyne; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carolyn (558,397 babies since 1880), Caroline (250,719 babies since 1880), Carolina (48,108 babies since 1880) and Karolyn (5,957 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Carolyne in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,260 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,816 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,143 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,829 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,327 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,637 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,221 | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,303 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,214 | — | — |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,661 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,614 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,482 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,060 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,931 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,585 | — | — |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,703 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,864 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,034 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,301 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,998 | — | — |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,205 | — | — |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,683 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,079 | — | — |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,876 | — | — |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,265 | — | — |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,880 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,085 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,349 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,219 | — | — |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,635 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,502 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,555 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,025 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,517 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,028 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,812 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,416 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,332 | — | — |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,973 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,858 | — | — |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1950 | 58 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1949 | 62 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1947 | 88 | #944 | — | — |
| 1946 | 90 | #874 | — | — |
| 1945 | 78 | #850 | — | — |
| 1944 | 97 | #774 | — | — |
| 1943 | 103 | #763 | — | — |
| 1942 | 108 | #717 | — | — |
| 1941 | 67 | #897 | — | — |
| 1940 | 52 | #991 | — | — |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 1938 | 51 | #994 | — | — |
| 1937 | 56 | #921 | — | — |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,476 | — | — |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,975 | — | — |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,134 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #930 | — | — |
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).