Carolee
Carolee was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 4,458 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,710 Americans named Carolee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 55 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carolee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carolee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,723, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
266 babies in 1943, the peak
Carolee peaked in 1943, when 266 girls were given it, #454 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,723 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,168 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,339 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,325 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,343 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,680 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,152 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,989 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 10 | #8,056 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,676 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,198 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,865 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,528 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,585 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,914 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,433 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,139 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,626 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,688 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,033 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,553 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,856 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,736 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,651 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 98 | #1,128 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 112 | #1,076 | 0.07 |
| 1970 | 69 | #1,464 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,371 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 74 | #1,281 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,122 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,693 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,073 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,548 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 60 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 66 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 60 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,290 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 69 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 68 | #1,220 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 65 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 59 | #1,237 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 72 | #1,098 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 65 | #1,146 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 81 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1948 | 85 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 103 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1946 | 85 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 119 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 173 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 266 | #454 | 0.19 |
| 1942 | 159 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 142 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1940 | 125 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1939 | 114 | #640 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 145 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1937 | 143 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 110 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 80 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 138 | #550 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 80 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 60 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,438 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,173 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,899 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,224 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,605 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,188 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,716 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,376 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,037 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,544 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,172 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carolee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carolee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carolee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carolee, and how old are they?
2,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 4,458 Americans ever recorded as Carolee. The median Carolee alive today is 69 years old; half are between 55 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 3,553 people named Carolee (3,546 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,179 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 737 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 981 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 792 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 154 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 19 |
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).
Where are babies named Carolee born?
The states with the most babies named Carolee are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 426 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 367 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 139 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 133 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Utah | 118 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| Illinois | 115 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 89 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kansas | 83 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Washington | 70 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 68 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Carolee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carolee is most over-represented in Utah: since 1917 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carolee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 178,375 babies since 1880, Carolee is the sixth most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 349 babies recorded by SSA was a Carolee (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 Carolee
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 Carolee and names like it
- Compare Carolee and CaroleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCarolee peaked in 1943.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carolee since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Carolee.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carolee alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.