Karoline
#1,710 for girls in 2025, 119 births
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 139 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,862since 1915
Karoline over time
Rank among girls' names. Karoline 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,710 | 119 |
| 2024 | #1,942 | 102 |
| 2023 | #2,244 | 83 |
| 2022 | #2,228 | 84 |
| 2021 | #2,131 | 88 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 |
| 2019 | #1,745 | 118 |
| 2018 | #1,900 | 105 |
| 2017 | #1,572 | 139 |
| 2016 | #1,693 | 126 |
| 2015 | #1,609 | 133 |
| 2014 | #1,876 | 107 |
| 2013 | #1,792 | 114 |
| 2012 | #2,078 | 92 |
| 2011 | #2,173 | 87 |
| 2010 | #2,093 | 94 |
| 2009 | #2,244 | 87 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 |
| 2007 | #2,433 | 77 |
| 2006 | #2,512 | 73 |
| 2005 | #2,359 | 75 |
| 2004 | #2,370 | 72 |
| 2003 | #2,346 | 71 |
| 2002 | #2,158 | 77 |
| 2001 | #1,995 | 85 |
| 2000 | #2,190 | 72 |
| 1999 | #2,153 | 70 |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 |
| 1997 | #2,158 | 64 |
| 1996 | #1,915 | 75 |
| 1995 | #2,456 | 52 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 1991 | #2,519 | 49 |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 |
| 1989 | #2,986 | 36 |
| 1988 | #3,225 | 30 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 |
| 1983 | #3,555 | 22 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 |
| 1981 | #3,532 | 23 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 |
| 1979 | #3,236 | 25 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 |
| 1973 | #3,015 | 22 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 |
| 1971 | #2,736 | 26 |
| 1970 | #2,450 | 30 |
| 1969 | #3,012 | 20 |
| 1968 | #2,969 | 19 |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 |
| 1966 | #2,839 | 19 |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 |
| 1964 | #2,040 | 34 |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 |
| 1962 | #2,210 | 29 |
| 1961 | #2,299 | 27 |
| 1960 | #3,212 | 15 |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 |
| 1955 | #3,778 | 10 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 |
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| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #2,972 | 9 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
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| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Karoline! It came in at #3,795, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1923, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Karoline is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#610 · 1 in 2,699
- Kentucky#734 · 1 in 3,499
- Florida#1,285 · 1 in 8,459
- Texas#1,315 · 1 in 8,809
- Illinois#1,335 · 1 in 8,597
Best ever in a state: #471 in Arkansas, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #610 | 7 | 1 in 2,699 |
| Kentucky | #734 | 5 | 1 in 3,499 |
| Florida | #1,285 | 10 | 1 in 8,459 |
| Texas | #1,315 | 18 | 1 in 8,809 |
| Illinois | #1,335 | 6 | 1 in 8,597 |
| New York | #1,709 | 7 | 1 in 12,129 |
| California | #2,221 | 9 | 1 in 20,507 |
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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 Karoline
- 232 spots since 2024 (#1,942 → #1,710)
- 706 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #1,710)
- 101 spots since 2015 (#1,609 → #1,710)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2017 at #1,572 (139 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,421 girls born in 2017 were named Karoline (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,506 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 28.9% of all girls named Karoline (1,115) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18 | #3,552 (1916) | #4,052 |
| 1920s | 24 | #3,665 (1924) | #4,355 |
| 1930s | 32 | #2,972 (1931) | #3,759 |
| 1940s | 58 | #2,846 (1941) | #3,636 |
| 1950s | 94 | #3,254 (1959) | #4,009 |
| 1960s | 231 | #2,040 (1964) | #2,648 |
| 1970s | 225 | #2,450 (1970) | #3,198 |
| 1980s | 230 | #2,986 (1989) | #3,792 |
| 1990s | 519 | #1,915 (1996) | #2,572 |
| 2000s | 768 | #1,995 (2001) | #2,303 |
| 2010s | 1,115 | #1,572 (2017) | #1,853 |
| 2020s | 548 | #1,710 (2025) | #2,112 |
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.
Karoline in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 14,223 of them was named Karoline, which outranked 90.3% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,740Lucero119
- #1,740Rosemarie119
- #1,740Yuri119
- #1,745Karoline118
- #1,745Akshara118
- #1,745Amiracle118
- #1,745Bennett118
- #1,755Cattleya117
- #1,755Kingsley117
- #1,755Kyler117
Tied with 9 names at #1,745; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.