Coraline
Coraline was given to 414 girls in 2025, #683 among girls’ names; 6,786 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,740 Americans named Coraline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coraline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Coraline mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Coraline is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
An elaborate form of Coralie, itself derived from coral. Name of a character in Adolphe Adam’s opera Le toréador.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Coraline?
#683 among girls’ names, 2025
Coraline fell from #579 in 2015 to #683 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.30 to 0.26 per 1,000.
527 babies in 2015, the peak
Coraline peaked in 2015, when 527 girls were given it, #579 among girls’ names. The 414 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 414 | #683 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 392 | #718 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 391 | #719 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 430 | #678 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 396 | #723 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 448 | #647 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 481 | #624 | 0.29 |
| 2018 | 512 | #595 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 512 | #586 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 502 | #600 | 0.28 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 527 | #579 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 453 | #631 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 389 | #713 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 326 | #826 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 225 | #1,092 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 239 | #1,044 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,796 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,234 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,242 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,222 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Coraline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Coraline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Coraline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coraline, and how old are they?
6,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,786 Americans ever recorded as Coraline. The median Coraline alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 3,977 people named Coraline (3,974 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,400 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 926 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,810 |
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 Coraline born?
The states with the most babies named Coraline are California, Texas and Ohio, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 49 | #637 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 46 | #666 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 31 | #359 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 24 | #697 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #580 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #639 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #541 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 13 | #521 | 1.4× |
| New York | 12 | #1,180 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | #868 | 0.6× |
Where Coraline is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Coraline is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1970 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Coraline with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 7,509 babies since 1880, Coraline is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 414 of their 466 babies (89%), again the 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 Coraline
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 Coraline and names like it
- Compare Coraline and KoralineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCoraline peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coraline since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Coraline: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Coraline.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Coraline alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.