Karolynn — girls' name
271 babies named Karolynn in U.S. Social Security records since 1940, with the highest year being 2014. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Karolynn was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Karolynn in 2014 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Karolynn
The Social Security Administration has registered 271 babies named Karolynn between 1940 and 2022, spanning 83 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Karolynn currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Karolynn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 65 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Karolynn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Karolynn in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Karolynn 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 271 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.
Karolynn at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Karolynn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1940
- Peak year (2014)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 83 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
271 total births across 83 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2014 with 15 births in a single year.
Karolynn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 65 births that decade — 24% of Karolynn's all-time total
Karolynn decade highlights
- Peak decade 65 births
- Runner-up 55 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Karolynn's strongest decade
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Karolynn by state
Where Karolynn concentrates geographically — total births since 1940
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.8% |
5 of 271 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1940–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.