Carolyne

Where Carolyne comes from

Carolyne hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1819
    Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein born
    Polish noble
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1929
    Carolyne M. Van Vliet born
    American physicist
  4. 1942
    Peak, #717
    108 babies named Carolyne — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,462.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein · Polish noble, 1819–1887
  • Carolyne M. Van Vliet · American physicist, 1929–2016
  • Carolyne Mas · singer, artist, musician, born 1955
  • Carolyne Lepage · Canadian judoka, born 1975
  • Carolyne Wanjiku Tharau · Kenyan comedian

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.