Carline — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carline

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,656 babies named Carline between 1898 and 2008, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carline currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 35 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carline performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Carline shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 83 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Carline in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carline in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,656 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.