Karoline
Karoline was given to 119 girls in 2025, #1,718 among girls’ names; 3,862 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,670 Americans named Karoline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karoline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Karoline mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Karoline is “a female given name, variant of Caroline.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Karoline?
#1,718 among girls’ names, 2025
Karoline fell from #1,615 in 2015 to #1,718 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 74.5 to 74.0 per million.
139 babies in 2017, the peak
Karoline peaked in 2017, when 139 girls were given it, #1,576 among girls’ names. The 119 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,718 | 74.0 |
| 2024 | 102 | #1,951 | 63.0 |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,251 | 51.7 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,236 | 51.2 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,144 | 53.6 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,429 | 44.5 |
| 2019 | 118 | #1,752 | 70.3 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,905 | 61.7 |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,576 | 80.5 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,699 | 71.1 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,615 | 74.5 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,885 | 59.9 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,800 | 65.0 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,086 | 52.2 |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,182 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,105 | 52.9 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,256 | 47.4 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,427 | 41.8 |
| 2007 | 77 | #2,446 | 40.0 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,524 | 38.4 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,365 | 40.6 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,377 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,352 | 38.9 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,163 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,000 | 47.2 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,195 | 39.6 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,161 | 39.5 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,509 | 31.1 |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,161 | 36.8 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,924 | 42.8 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,467 | 29.6 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,813 | 24.1 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,374 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,937 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,522 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,973 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,005 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,256 | 16.8 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,183 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,065 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,120 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,404 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,613 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,606 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,565 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,663 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,276 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,559 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,947 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,871 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,686 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,770 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,063 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,002 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,760 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,474 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 20 | #3,056 | 11.9 |
| 1968 | 19 | #3,009 | 11.6 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,822 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,886 | 11.2 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,178 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,054 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,011 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,230 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,327 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,271 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,336 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,060 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,571 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,636 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,918 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,432 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,349 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,666 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,196 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,549 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,621 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,243 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,549 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,522 | 6.1 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,091 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,945 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,673 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,612 | 6.4 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,032 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,532 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,743 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,097 | 8.5 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,323 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,069 | 4.3 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,837 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,353 | 4.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,211 | 4.3 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,732 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,012 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karoline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karoline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karoline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karoline, and how old are they?
3,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,862 Americans ever recorded as Karoline. The median Karoline alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,592 people named Karoline (3,588 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 195 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 329 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 525 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,380 |
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 Karoline born?
The states with the most babies named Karoline are Texas, Florida and California, with 68% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,292 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 17 | #935 | 0.8× |
| California | 13 | #1,699 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,209 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,329 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,664 | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 5 | #611 | 0.4× |
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 Karoline 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 317,888 babies since 1880, Karoline is the fifth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 119 of their 3,735 babies (3.2%), the fourth 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 Karoline
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 Karoline and names like it
- Compare Karoline and CarolineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKaroline peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karoline since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Karoline.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Karoline alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.