Karolina
#1,261 for girls in 2025, 177 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 186 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,676since 1917
Karolina over time
Rank among girls' names. Karolina has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,261 | 177 |
| 2024 | #1,250 | 186 |
| 2023 | #1,361 | 165 |
| 2022 | #1,497 | 145 |
| 2021 | #1,861 | 107 |
| 2020 | #1,623 | 128 |
| 2019 | #1,789 | 114 |
| 2018 | #1,915 | 104 |
| 2017 | #1,716 | 124 |
| 2016 | #1,785 | 116 |
| 2015 | #1,685 | 126 |
| 2014 | #1,602 | 134 |
| 2013 | #1,761 | 116 |
| 2012 | #1,744 | 118 |
| 2011 | #1,690 | 124 |
| 2010 | #1,388 | 166 |
| 2009 | #1,392 | 170 |
| 2008 | #1,495 | 156 |
| 2007 | #1,288 | 190 |
| 2006 | #1,381 | 165 |
| 2005 | #1,378 | 156 |
| 2004 | #1,314 | 162 |
| 2003 | #1,439 | 137 |
| 2002 | #1,510 | 125 |
| 2001 | #1,595 | 116 |
| 2000 | #1,577 | 112 |
| 1999 | #1,621 | 103 |
| 1998 | #1,646 | 98 |
| 1997 | #1,504 | 108 |
| 1996 | #1,583 | 98 |
| 1995 | #1,669 | 88 |
| 1994 | #1,545 | 100 |
| 1993 | #1,725 | 86 |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 |
| 1991 | #3,817 | 27 |
| 1990 | #3,227 | 34 |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
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| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karolina! It came in at #4,594, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Karolina is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#361 · 1 in 1,757
- New Jersey#710 · 1 in 3,832
- Texas#987 · 1 in 5,952
- New York#1,060 · 1 in 6,770
- California#1,199 · 1 in 8,396
Best ever in a state: #354 in Illinois, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #361 | 36 | 1 in 1,757 |
| New Jersey | #710 | 10 | 1 in 3,832 |
| Texas | #987 | 28 | 1 in 5,952 |
| New York | #1,060 | 14 | 1 in 6,770 |
| California | #1,199 | 26 | 1 in 8,396 |
| Florida | #1,335 | 9 | 1 in 9,148 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Karolina
- 11 spots since 2024 (#1,250 → #1,261)
- 362 spots since 2020 (#1,623 → #1,261)
- 424 spots since 2015 (#1,685 → #1,261)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 2024 at #1,250 (186 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,711 girls born in 2024 were named Karolina (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,081 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 31.8% of all girls named Karolina (1,489) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 10 | #4,594 (1917) | #4,702 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,975 (1920) | #4,975 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 10 | #6,539 (1965) | #6,566 |
| 1970s | 38 | #6,666 (1973) | #7,985 |
| 1980s | 176 | #3,104 (1989) | #4,875 |
| 1990s | 798 | #1,504 (1997) | #2,066 |
| 2000s | 1,489 | #1,288 (2007) | #1,437 |
| 2010s | 1,242 | #1,388 (2010) | #1,708 |
| 2020s | 908 | #1,250 (2024) | #1,476 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Karolina in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 10,807 of them was named Karolina, which outranked 93.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,383Kalli171
- #1,383Melia171
- #1,383Pyper171
- #1,392Karolina170
- #1,392Harmoni170
- #1,392Marlen170
- #1,392Sheila170
- #1,398Audra169
- #1,398Josselyn169
- #1,398Malina169
Tied with 5 names at #1,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.