Karolina
Karolina was given to 177 girls in 2025, #1,267 among girls’ names; 4,676 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,610 Americans named Karolina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karolina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karolina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karolina is “a female given name in many languages.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karolina?
#1,267 among girls’ names, 2025
Karolina rose from #1,689 in 2015 to #1,267 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.11 per 1,000.
190 babies in 2007, the peak
Karolina peaked in 2007, when 190 girls were given it, #1,289 among girls’ names. The 177 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,267 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 186 | #1,256 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,366 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 145 | #1,500 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 107 | #1,867 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,626 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 114 | #1,793 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 104 | #1,919 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 124 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,791 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 126 | #1,689 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 134 | #1,610 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 116 | #1,770 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,754 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 124 | #1,698 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 166 | #1,389 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 170 | #1,393 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,500 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 190 | #1,289 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 165 | #1,385 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,384 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,316 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 137 | #1,441 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,514 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,596 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,577 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,623 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 98 | #1,649 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,507 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,591 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 88 | #1,672 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,547 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,730 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,330 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,250 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,672 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,934 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,536 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,231 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,773 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,352 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,073 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,557 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,020 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,600 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,940 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karolina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karolina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karolina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karolina, and how old are they?
4,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,676 Americans ever recorded as Karolina. The median Karolina alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 6,318 people named Karolina (6,311 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,748 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 47 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 643 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,730 |
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 Karolina born?
The states with the most babies named Karolina are Texas, California and Florida, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 49 | #637 | 1.6× |
| California | 29 | #958 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 18 | #896 | 1.0× |
| New York | 7 | #1,743 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,328 | 3.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,458 | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,267 | 1.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,144 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,141 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,282 | 0.2× |
Where Karolina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Karolina is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1917 it was given 3.5 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 Karolina 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 310,134 babies since 1880, Karolina is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 177 of their 3,745 babies (4.7%), again the third 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 Karolina
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 Karolina and names like it
- Compare Karolina and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKarolina peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karolina since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Karolina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Karolina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.