Carolene
Carolene was last recorded in 1976, when 5 babies were given it; 739 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carolene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carolene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,481, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1938, the peak
Carolene peaked in 1938, when 31 girls were given it, #1,317 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | #9,481 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,541 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,438 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,069 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,452 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,463 | 6.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,535 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,421 | 7.9 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,260 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,294 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 11 | #4,037 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,973 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,228 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,851 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,103 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,162 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,835 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,112 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,041 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,288 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,209 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,955 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,555 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,809 | 16.4 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,076 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,362 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,776 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,626 | 19.9 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,220 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,626 | 19.4 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,535 | 21.5 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,703 | 18.2 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,691 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,591 | 21.0 |
| 1938 | 31 | #1,317 | 28.1 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,586 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,713 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,933 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,101 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,422 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,665 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,787 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,094 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,434 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,811 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,919 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,514 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,702 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,231 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,092 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,931 | 4.4 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,173 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carolene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carolene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carolene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carolene, and how old are they?
An estimated 411 Americans named Carolene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 65 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 513 people named Carolene (512 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 495 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
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 328,068 babies since 1880, Carolene is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 3,548 babies recorded by SSA was a Carolene (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 Carolene
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 Carolene and names like it
- Compare Carolene and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sCarolene peaked in 1938.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carolene since 1910.
- The top names of 1938The year the most babies were named Carolene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carolene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.