Carolina — #428 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Carolina

The Social Security Administration has registered 47,196 babies named Carolina between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carolina currently holds the #428 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 1,270 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carolina performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 11,073 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carolina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11,780 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Carolina in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carolina 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 47,196 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.