Carolee — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carolee

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,458 babies named Carolee between 1917 and 2021, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carolee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1943, when 266 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carolee performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 1,338 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Carolee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 426 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Carolee in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carolee 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 4,458 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.