Karolina — #1253 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Karolina

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,497 babies named Karolina between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karolina currently holds the #1253 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 190 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Karolina performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,489 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Karolina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 701 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Karolina in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Karolina 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 4,497 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.