Carlina
Carlina was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,522 among girls’ names; 1,184 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Carlina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 20 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carlina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carlina?
#13,522 among girls’ names, 2025
Carlina fell from #7,344 in 2015 to #13,522 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.7 per million.
32 babies in 2012, the peak
Carlina peaked in 2012, when 32 girls were given it, #4,513 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,522 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,807 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,640 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,810 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,055 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,688 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,708 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,439 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,469 | 10.7 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,344 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 16 | #7,378 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,349 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,513 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,719 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,341 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,417 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,313 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,121 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,597 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,842 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,616 | 15.8 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,448 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,516 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,368 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,523 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,469 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,401 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,020 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,820 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,698 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,259 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,539 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,254 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,547 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,716 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,408 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,594 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,871 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,367 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,747 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,240 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,696 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,432 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,875 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,004 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,923 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,280 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,283 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,940 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,194 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,020 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,356 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,323 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,522 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,599 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,216 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,242 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,683 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,532 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,420 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,122 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,962 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,035 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,036 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,059 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,758 | 2.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,706 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carlina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carlina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carlina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carlina, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,184 Americans ever recorded as Carlina. The median Carlina alive today is 33 years old; half are between 20 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,551 people named Carlina (1,551 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,122 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 42 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 239 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 348 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 366 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 144 |
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 324,107 babies since 1880, Carlina is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 3,626 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Carlina
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 Carlina and names like it
- Compare Carlina and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCarlina peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carlina since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Carlina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carlina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.