Caralyn
Caralyn was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,520 among girls’ names; 1,148 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Caralyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 18 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caralyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caralyn?
#13,520 among girls’ names, 2025
Caralyn fell from #5,498 in 2015 to #13,520 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 3.7 per million.
33 babies in 1998, the peak
Caralyn peaked in 1998, when 33 girls were given it, #3,582 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,520 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,472 | 5.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,283 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,870 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,465 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,901 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,070 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,498 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,769 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,552 | 17.7 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 21 | #6,154 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,905 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,454 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,506 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,166 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,136 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,983 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,625 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,089 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,940 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,444 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,022 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,522 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,946 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,582 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,545 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,819 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,693 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,177 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,707 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,785 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,518 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,516 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,258 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,021 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,336 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,998 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,721 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,249 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,569 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,242 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,931 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,166 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,065 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,251 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,648 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,381 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,193 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,932 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,578 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,639 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,476 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,735 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,748 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,625 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,070 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,326 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,974 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,533 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,969 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,800 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,847 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,210 | 4.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,087 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,769 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,580 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,502 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,290 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,720 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,984 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,167 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,428 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,388 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,924 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,322 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,034 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,037 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,617 | 9.2 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,531 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,786 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,473 | 6.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,325 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caralyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Caralyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Caralyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caralyn, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,148 Americans ever recorded as Caralyn. The median Caralyn alive today is 32 years old; half are between 18 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,016 people named Caralyn (1,012 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,066 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 139 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 152 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 265 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 153 |
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 581,576 babies since 1880, Caralyn is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 294 babies (2.0%), the seventh 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 Caralyn
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 Caralyn and names like it
- Compare Caralyn and CarolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCaralyn peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caralyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Caralyn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Caralyn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.