Carolena
Carolena was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,255 among girls’ names; 478 Americans have been recorded with it since 1935 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carolena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carolena?
#10,255 among girls’ names, 2025
Carolena fell from #6,508 in 2015 to #10,255 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 5.6 per million.
25 babies in 2008, the peak
Carolena peaked in 2008, when 25 girls were given it, #5,601 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,255 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,732 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,379 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,937 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,495 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,818 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,842 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,528 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,668 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,508 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 18 | #6,770 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,685 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,897 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,180 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,426 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,355 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,601 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,801 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,956 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,004 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,274 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,623 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,868 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,384 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,282 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,520 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,548 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,761 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,692 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,930 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,785 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,990 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,476 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,283 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,871 | 4.3 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,588 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,164 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,644 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,938 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,765 | 2.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,124 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,298 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carolena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carolena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carolena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carolena, and how old are they?
An estimated 463 Americans named Carolena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 528 people named Carolena (527 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 430 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
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 325,403 babies since 1880, Carolena is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 3,629 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Carolena
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 Carolena and names like it
- Compare Carolena and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCarolena peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carolena since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Carolena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carolena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.