Meaning not yet researched.
Karolina: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,256 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,256 in 2024; #1,267 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karolina in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,267 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,256.
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Karolina: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,256 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 190 (2007).
In 2025, 177 US girls were named Karolina, making it the 1,267th most common girls’ name of the year, down 11 places from #1,256 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 186 girls named Karolina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,256, reached in 2024. The most girls given the name in a single year was 190, in 2007. For comparison, it was #1,689 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karolina in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 4,676 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,489 babies named Karolina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,366 US girls were named Karolina; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 186. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,081 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karolina ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #637 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), Carolina (48,108 babies since 1880) and Karolyn (5,957 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karalena and Karoleena 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 Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Slovene and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karalena (31), Karoleena (11).
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 Karolina 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 49 | #637 | #946 |
| Oregon | 5 | #680 | — |
| Florida | 18 | #896 | #1,420 |
| California | 29 | #958 | #1,982 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,141 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,144 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,267 | #823 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,282 | #892 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,328 | #890 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,458 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,743 | #1,694 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 2022 | 145 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 2017 | 124 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 2015 | 126 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,770 | — | — |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 2010 | 166 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 2009 | 170 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2007 | 190 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 2006 | 165 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 2003 | 137 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,509 | — | — |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,734 | — | — |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,873 | — | — |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,255 | — | — |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,675 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,937 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,538 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,774 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,354 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,074 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,558 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,491 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,022 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,957 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,602 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,453 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,989 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,970 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,073 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,354 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,212 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,942 | — | — |
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).