Karaline
Karaline was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,669 among girls’ names; 779 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karaline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karaline?
#7,669 among girls’ names, 2025
Karaline fell from #4,347 in 2015 to #7,669 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 8.7 per million.
40 babies in 2014, the peak
Karaline peaked in 2014, when 40 girls were given it, #3,807 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,669 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,329 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,263 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,336 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,097 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,491 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,701 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,507 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,181 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,210 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,347 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,807 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,118 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,320 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,749 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,797 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,233 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,504 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,606 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,162 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,637 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,451 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,499 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,168 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,959 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,877 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,448 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,197 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,503 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,539 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,810 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,532 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,520 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,259 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,048 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,201 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,148 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,449 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,017 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,445 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karaline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karaline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karaline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karaline, and how old are they?
An estimated 771 Americans named Karaline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 639 people named Karaline (634 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 267,300 babies since 1880, Karaline is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 2,976 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Karaline
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.
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