Meaning not yet researched.
Karoline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 119 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,576 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,576 in 2017; #1,718 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karoline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,718 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,576.
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Karoline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 119 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,576 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 139 (2017).
In 2025, 119 US girls were named Karoline, making it the 1,718th most common girls’ name of the year, up 233 places from #1,951 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 102 girls named Karoline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,576, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 139. For comparison, it was #1,615 in 2015 and #3,551 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karoline in 95 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 3,862 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,115 babies named Karoline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,036 US girls were named Karoline; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 139. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,506 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Karoline ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #611 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).
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 German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Karoline 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #611 | — |
| Florida | 17 | #935 | #1,014 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,209 | #1,162 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,292 | #1,443 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,329 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,664 | #1,631 |
| California | 13 | #1,699 | #1,560 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,236 | — | — |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 2019 | 118 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,086 | — | — |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,256 | — | — |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,166 | — | — |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,512 | — | — |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,379 | — | — |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,942 | — | — |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,261 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,186 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,068 | — | — |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,405 | — | — |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,566 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,687 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,064 | — | — |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,057 | — | — |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,009 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,178 | — | — |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,231 | — | — |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,272 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,337 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,061 | — | — |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,572 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,637 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,350 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,667 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,197 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,623 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,551 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,524 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,093 | — | — |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,675 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,745 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,325 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,071 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,839 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,213 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,014 | — | — |
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).