Carolyne
Carolyne was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,256 among girls’ names; 3,587 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,310 Americans named Carolyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 26 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carolyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Carolyne?
#10,256 among girls’ names, 2025
Carolyne fell from #4,613 in 2015 to #10,256 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 16.8 to 5.6 per million.
108 babies in 1942, the peak
Carolyne peaked in 1942, when 108 girls were given it, #717 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,256 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,811 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,138 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,824 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,322 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,632 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,217 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,299 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,212 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,659 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (125)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #4,613 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,480 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,057 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,927 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,583 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,700 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,861 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,032 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,835 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,012 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 32 | #4,281 | 17.3 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,297 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,323 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,994 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,201 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,407 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,150 | 23.1 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,932 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,679 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,074 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,871 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,260 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,689 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,875 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,071 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,080 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,578 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,649 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,346 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,216 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,634 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,885 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,501 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,554 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,024 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,516 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,927 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,097 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,972 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,557 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,026 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,811 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,497 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,416 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,330 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,525 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,972 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,328 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,791 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,594 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,752 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,311 | 14.8 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,430 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,120 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,156 | 14.9 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,857 | 18.3 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,696 | 20.8 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,077 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 36 | #1,811 | 17.6 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,107 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,941 | 15.3 |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,410 | 26.3 |
| 1953 | 36 | #1,650 | 19.1 |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,369 | 27.0 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,462 | 22.8 |
| 1950 | 58 | #1,212 | 33.9 |
| 1949 | 62 | #1,154 | 36.2 |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,070 | 40.0 |
| 1947 | 88 | #943 | 49.6 |
| 1946 | 90 | #873 | 57.3 |
| 1945 | 78 | #850 | 59.7 |
| 1944 | 97 | #774 | 73.1 |
| 1943 | 103 | #763 | 73.8 |
| 1942 | 108 | #717 | 80.0 |
| 1941 | 67 | #897 | 55.5 |
| 1940 | 52 | #991 | 45.5 |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,164 | 35.6 |
| 1938 | 51 | #994 | 46.2 |
| 1937 | 56 | #921 | 52.6 |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,067 | 41.3 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,139 | 36.2 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,522 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,226 | 33.7 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,297 | 30.0 |
| 1931 | 40 | #1,129 | 37.6 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,759 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,837 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,792 | 19.1 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,461 | 26.0 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,782 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,583 | 23.0 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,333 | 29.6 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,529 | 24.0 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,651 | 21.6 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,728 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,024 | 15.9 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,809 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,364 | 27.6 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,476 | 24.0 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,541 | 23.0 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,344 | 28.5 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,670 | 10.5 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,609 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,736 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,524 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,467 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,996 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,161 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,664 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,995 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,984 | 17.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,974 | 16.7 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,438 | 25.2 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,134 | 38.5 |
| 1882 | 5 | #930 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carolyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carolyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 125 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carolyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carolyne, and how old are they?
2,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 3,587 Americans ever recorded as Carolyne. The median Carolyne alive today is 51 years old; half are between 26 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 2,927 people named Carolyne (2,927 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,511 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 349 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 639 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 243 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 471 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 228 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Carolyne born?
The states with the most babies named Carolyne are California, Texas and New York, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 199 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 134 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 48 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 47 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 31 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carolyne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Carolyne?
Carolyne is a less common spelling of Caroline: SSA has recorded 3,587 Carolyne and 250,719 Caroline since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 325,441 babies since 1880, Carolyne is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 3,563 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Carolyne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Marylee | 3,385 |
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 Carolyne and names like it
- Compare Carolyne and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCarolyne peaked in 1942.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carolyne since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Carolyne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carolyne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.