Carolyna
Carolyna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,527 among girls’ names; 185 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carolyna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carolyna?
#13,527 among girls’ names, 2025
Carolyna rose from #14,864 in 2015 to #13,527 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 3.7 per million.
10 babies in 2002, the peak
Carolyna peaked in 2002, when 10 girls were given it, #9,621 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,527 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,768 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,160 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,493 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,169 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,864 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,941 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,767 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,382 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,440 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #17,819 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,118 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,206 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,741 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,088 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,044 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,504 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,621 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,823 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,036 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,807 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,147 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,693 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,775 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,648 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,724 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carolyna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carolyna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carolyna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carolyna, and how old are they?
An estimated 183 Americans named Carolyna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Carolyna (239 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% 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).
How common is the spelling Carolyna?
Carolyna is a less common spelling of Carolina: SSA has recorded 185 Carolyna and 48,108 Carolina since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 310,872 babies since 1880, Carolyna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 3,621 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Carolyna
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 Carolyna and names like it
- Compare Carolyna and CarolinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCarolyna peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carolyna since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Carolyna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Carolyna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.