Carolin
Carolin was last recorded in 2019, when 10 babies were given it; 1,255 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carolin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carolin mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Carolin is “a female given name, variant of Caroline”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carolin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,872, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1942, the peak
Carolin peaked in 1942, when 39 girls were given it, #1,280 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 10 | #9,872 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,370 | 7.5 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,863 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,686 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,280 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,439 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,107 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,782 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,660 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,636 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 9 | #11,087 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,016 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,164 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,501 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,385 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,983 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,630 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,178 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,146 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,451 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,180 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,756 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,316 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,591 | 6.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,170 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,594 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,711 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,641 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,000 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,454 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,350 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,401 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,421 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,236 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,515 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,769 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,012 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,655 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,250 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,575 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,810 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,156 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,643 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,485 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,060 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,750 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,020 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,098 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,854 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,162 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,010 | 9.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,582 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,447 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,335 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 23 | #2,521 | 11.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,275 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,228 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,039 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,257 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,408 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,190 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,128 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,334 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,888 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,794 | 16.3 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,770 | 17.0 |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,674 | 18.3 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,757 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,591 | 19.7 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,595 | 20.7 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,670 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,670 | 18.6 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,280 | 28.9 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,388 | 25.7 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,692 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,315 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,351 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,333 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,276 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,814 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,196 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,906 | 8.9 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,923 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,821 | 4.3 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,082 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,541 | 4.8 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,127 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,717 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,093 | 4.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,937 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,037 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carolin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carolin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carolin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carolin, and how old are they?
An estimated 947 Americans named Carolin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 32 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,410 people named Carolin (2,405 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,028 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Carolin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 584,121 babies since 1880, Carolin is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 278 babies recorded by SSA was a Carolin (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 Carolin
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 Carolin and names like it
- Compare Carolin and CarolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCarolin peaked in 1942.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carolin since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Carolin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Carolin.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carolin alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.