Caraline
Caraline was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,204 among girls’ names; 1,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Caraline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caraline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caraline?
#7,204 among girls’ names, 2025
Caraline fell from #4,612 in 2015 to #7,204 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 9.3 per million.
55 babies in 2011, the peak
Caraline peaked in 2011, when 55 girls were given it, #3,059 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,204 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,986 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,414 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,503 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,741 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,781 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,561 | 17.9 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,513 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,313 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,068 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,612 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,599 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,132 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,934 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,059 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,698 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,373 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 35 | #4,376 | 18.5 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,750 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,276 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,279 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,834 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 35 | #3,886 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,401 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,792 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,547 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,890 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,658 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,529 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,198 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,042 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,046 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,311 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,511 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,425 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,963 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,519 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,393 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,861 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,523 | 5.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,128 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caraline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caraline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caraline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caraline, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,108 Americans ever recorded as Caraline. The median Caraline alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 966 people named Caraline (964 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 975 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 145 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 532 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 414 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 325,454 babies since 1880, Caraline is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 3,569 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caraline
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caraline and names like it
- Compare Caraline and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCaraline peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caraline since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Caraline.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caraline alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.