Carline
Carline was last recorded in 2008, when 8 babies were given it; 1,661 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Carline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 43 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carline mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carline is “a female given name, variant of Caroline.”
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)lɪn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carline?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,815, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1949, the peak
Carline peaked in 1949, when 35 girls were given it, #1,564 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | #12,815 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,968 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,576 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,582 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,818 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,451 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,321 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,517 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,104 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,210 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 14 | #6,306 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,928 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,313 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,056 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,983 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,254 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,592 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,710 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,864 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,999 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,151 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,750 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,191 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,581 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,761 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,755 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,924 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,969 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,255 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,197 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,281 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,573 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,175 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,911 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,963 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,224 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,803 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,435 | 15.8 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,499 | 14.5 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,053 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,942 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,832 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,711 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,364 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,618 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,580 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,994 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 24 | #2,329 | 11.9 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,735 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,199 | 12.5 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,284 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,597 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 21 | #2,306 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,272 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,319 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,914 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,564 | 20.5 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,196 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,824 | 15.8 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,868 | 15.3 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,944 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,669 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,955 | 14.3 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,592 | 20.0 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,476 | 23.2 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,044 | 14.0 |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,551 | 21.9 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,554 | 21.7 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,795 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,598 | 21.1 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,613 | 21.0 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,710 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,727 | 19.8 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,694 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,215 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,577 | 22.2 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,603 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,848 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,032 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,940 | 16.9 |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,127 | 14.8 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,881 | 17.6 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,189 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,503 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,299 | 13.0 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,137 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,536 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,541 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,718 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,858 | 9.6 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,406 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,458 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,253 | 8.0 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,036 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,681 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,184 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,257 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,894 | 17.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,729 | 20.6 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,529 | 23.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carline has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 100 years of records.
Girls and boys named Carline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carline, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 1,661 Americans ever recorded as Carline. The median Carline alive today is 58 years old; half are between 43 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 2,790 people named Carline (2,768 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,124 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times 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 | 118 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 329 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 273 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 59 |
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 328,755 babies since 1880, Carline is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,556 babies recorded by SSA was a Carline (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Carline
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 Carline and names like it
- Compare Carline and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCarline peaked in 1949.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carline since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Carline.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carline alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.