Meaning not yet researched.
Carolynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #568 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #568 in 1942; #3,409 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carolynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,409 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #568.
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Carolynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 girls in 2025. Peak: #568 in 1942 · most girls in one year: 169 (1942).
In 2025, 45 US girls were named Carolynn, making it the 3,409th most common girls’ name of the year, up 363 places from #3,772 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 40 girls named Carolynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #568, reached in 1942. That year also had the most girls given the name: 169. For comparison, it was #3,358 in 2015 and #851 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carolynn in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 8 babies. In all, 6,453 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,467 babies named Carolynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 425 US girls were named Carolynn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 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), Karolyn (5,957 babies since 1880) and Carolann (5,652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karalynn, Karilynn and Caroleann 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karalynn (765), Karilynn (112), Caroleann (84), Karolann (6).
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 Carolynn 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 | 45 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,772 | — | — |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,129 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,558 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,052 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,937 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,494 | — | — |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,190 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,358 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,859 | — | — |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,652 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,213 | — | — |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,661 | — | — |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,377 | — | — |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,889 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,506 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,151 | — | — |
| 2000 | 56 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,469 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,025 | — | — |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,229 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1992 | 64 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,964 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,854 | — | — |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,802 | — | — |
| 1973 | 49 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1971 | 63 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1970 | 74 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1969 | 71 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1968 | 82 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1967 | 72 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1966 | 55 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1965 | 73 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1964 | 73 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1963 | 83 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1962 | 103 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1961 | 109 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1960 | 71 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1959 | 97 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1958 | 89 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1957 | 102 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1956 | 91 | #1,077 | — | — |
| 1955 | 88 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1954 | 108 | #928 | — | — |
| 1953 | 91 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1952 | 122 | #826 | — | — |
| 1951 | 104 | #883 | — | — |
| 1950 | 108 | #851 | — | — |
| 1949 | 130 | #753 | — | — |
| 1948 | 139 | #710 | — | — |
| 1947 | 168 | #638 | — | — |
| 1946 | 163 | #622 | — | — |
| 1945 | 143 | #603 | — | — |
| 1944 | 165 | #569 | — | — |
| 1943 | 160 | #594 | — | — |
| 1942 | 169 | #568 | — | — |
| 1941 | 123 | #640 | — | — |
| 1940 | 107 | #669 | — | — |
| 1939 | 70 | #827 | — | — |
| 1938 | 70 | #848 | — | — |
| 1937 | 66 | #850 | — | — |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1935 | 55 | #938 | — | — |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,104 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,322 | — | — |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,686 | — | — |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,071 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,561 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,392 | — | — |
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).