Meaning not yet researched.
Karolyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #571 in 1941.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #571 in 1941; #6,436 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karolyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,436 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1941, at #571.
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Karolyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #571 in 1941 · most girls in one year: 167 (1946).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Karolyn, making it the 6,436th most common girls’ name of the year, down 731 places from #5,705 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 22 girls named Karolyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #571, reached in 1941. The most girls given the name in a single year was 167, in 1946. For comparison, it was #6,344 in 2015 and #930 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karolyn in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 5,957 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,355 babies named Karolyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 211 US girls were named Karolyn; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 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 Karolina (4,676 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karalyne, Karelin and Karalin 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: Karalyne (114), Karelin (28), Karalin (5).
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 Karolyn 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 | 18 | #6,436 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,705 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,445 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,550 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,105 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,772 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,362 | — | — |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,033 | — | — |
| 2017 | 27 | #4,994 | — | — |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,531 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,344 | — | — |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,708 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,488 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,475 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,718 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,323 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,009 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,209 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,665 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,260 | — | — |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,032 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,685 | — | — |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,183 | — | — |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,713 | — | — |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1989 | 55 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,459 | — | — |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1978 | 56 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1977 | 78 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,595 | — | — |
| 1974 | 63 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1972 | 63 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1971 | 71 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1970 | 81 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 1969 | 84 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1968 | 72 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1967 | 72 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1966 | 89 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1965 | 109 | #997 | — | — |
| 1964 | 92 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1962 | 106 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1961 | 98 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 1960 | 70 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1959 | 65 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1958 | 74 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1957 | 90 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1956 | 64 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1955 | 60 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1954 | 73 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1953 | 79 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1952 | 97 | #949 | — | — |
| 1951 | 97 | #940 | — | — |
| 1950 | 92 | #930 | — | — |
| 1949 | 114 | #821 | — | — |
| 1948 | 122 | #777 | — | — |
| 1947 | 148 | #693 | — | — |
| 1946 | 167 | #614 | — | — |
| 1945 | 132 | #635 | — | — |
| 1944 | 133 | #637 | — | — |
| 1943 | 154 | #610 | — | — |
| 1942 | 129 | #659 | — | — |
| 1941 | 149 | #571 | — | — |
| 1940 | 107 | #671 | — | — |
| 1939 | 105 | #664 | — | — |
| 1938 | 79 | #797 | — | — |
| 1937 | 65 | #858 | — | — |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1934 | 45 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,540 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,659 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,775 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,522 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,943 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,148 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,433 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,800 | — | — |
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).