Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GermanCaroline is a feminine given name, originally a French feminine form of the masculine name Charles. It has been in common use in the Anglosphere since the 1600s.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Caroline yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Caroline reached rank 55 in 2017. Its busiest year for births was 2000, at 5,022 — seventeen years earlier, which is another case of a name climbing the table while producing fewer children. It now records 2,720 births at rank 92, down 37% across the decade. With 248,055 births since 1880 it is among the more established names here. The namesake list is almost entirely middle-name matches: Kirsten Dunst, Victoria Beckham and Gisele Bündchen all carry Caroline second, and none is known by it. The astronomer Caroline Herschel, born 1750, and the tennis player Caroline Wozniacki are the genuine bearers. A name this formal usually depends on a nickname to stay usable, and Caroline's supply of them is unusually deep.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 306 | #75 |
| 1881 | 316 | #73 |
| 1882 | 304 | #85 |
| 1883 | 321 | #86 |
| 1884 | 380 | #78 |
| 1885 | 399 | #78 |
| 1886 | 370 | #92 |
| 1887 | 398 | #84 |
| 1888 | 458 | #89 |
| 1889 | 491 | #84 |
| 1890 | 455 | #94 |
| 1891 | 402 | #100 |
| 1892 | 476 | #100 |
| 1893 | 483 | #99 |
| 1894 | 473 | #103 |
| 1895 | 484 | #105 |
| 1896 | 437 | #110 |
| 1897 | 456 | #112 |
| 1898 | 441 | #122 |
| 1899 | 393 | #124 |
| 1900 | 455 | #135 |
| 1901 | 406 | #125 |
| 1902 | 452 | #126 |
| 1903 | 389 | #141 |
| 1904 | 429 | #136 |
| 1905 | 407 | #146 |
| 1906 | 409 | #144 |
| 1907 | 437 | #151 |
| 1908 | 449 | #150 |
| 1909 | 443 | #157 |
| 1910 | 553 | #146 |
| 1911 | 550 | #146 |
| 1912 | 785 | #139 |
| 1913 | 805 | #149 |
| 1914 | 989 | #148 |
| 1915 | 1,402 | #137 |
| 1916 | 1,385 | #144 |
| 1917 | 1,368 | #152 |
| 1918 | 1,458 | #154 |
| 1919 | 1,296 | #169 |
| 1920 | 1,436 | #159 |
| 1921 | 1,425 | #162 |
| 1922 | 1,269 | #176 |
| 1923 | 1,304 | #173 |
| 1924 | 1,302 | #175 |
| 1925 | 1,193 | #185 |
| 1926 | 1,217 | #174 |
| 1927 | 1,167 | #179 |
| 1928 | 1,189 | #175 |
| 1929 | 1,192 | #171 |
| 1930 | 1,160 | #172 |
| 1931 | 1,125 | #165 |
| 1932 | 1,103 | #174 |
| 1933 | 1,050 | #173 |
| 1934 | 1,069 | #174 |
| 1935 | 1,048 | #178 |
| 1936 | 1,075 | #177 |
| 1937 | 1,094 | #181 |
| 1938 | 1,115 | #182 |
| 1939 | 1,005 | #186 |
| 1940 | 1,161 | #172 |
| 1941 | 1,173 | #174 |
| 1942 | 1,390 | #168 |
| 1943 | 1,353 | #171 |
| 1944 | 1,212 | #178 |
| 1945 | 1,015 | #197 |
| 1946 | 1,090 | #214 |
| 1947 | 1,150 | #220 |
| 1948 | 1,080 | #226 |
| 1949 | 1,001 | #235 |
| 1950 | 879 | #257 |
| 1951 | 919 | #254 |
| 1952 | 916 | #263 |
| 1953 | 885 | #280 |
| 1954 | 771 | #302 |
| 1955 | 742 | #315 |
| 1956 | 702 | #329 |
| 1957 | 1,137 | #253 |
| 1958 | 990 | #282 |
| 1959 | 1,044 | #274 |
| 1960 | 1,209 | #254 |
| 1961 | 2,199 | #176 |
| 1962 | 1,989 | #186 |
| 1963 | 1,690 | #208 |
| 1964 | 2,106 | #179 |
| 1965 | 1,815 | #187 |
| 1966 | 1,551 | #202 |
| 1967 | 1,450 | #210 |
| 1968 | 1,412 | #215 |
| 1969 | 1,352 | #224 |
| 1970 | 1,371 | #229 |
| 1971 | 1,215 | #241 |
| 1972 | 1,071 | #251 |
| 1973 | 1,112 | #229 |
| 1974 | 1,197 | #212 |
| 1975 | 1,231 | #198 |
| 1976 | 1,224 | #197 |
| 1977 | 1,204 | #210 |
| 1978 | 1,308 | #201 |
| 1979 | 1,354 | #198 |
| 1980 | 1,313 | #200 |
| 1981 | 1,391 | #193 |
| 1982 | 1,537 | #178 |
| 1983 | 1,484 | #183 |
| 1984 | 1,632 | #168 |
| 1985 | 1,751 | #164 |
| 1986 | 1,802 | #157 |
| 1987 | 2,047 | #135 |
| 1988 | 2,326 | #122 |
| 1989 | 2,661 | #113 |
| 1990 | 2,819 | #116 |
| 1991 | 2,843 | #116 |
| 1992 | 3,176 | #105 |
| 1993 | 3,083 | #105 |
| 1994 | 3,452 | #94 |
| 1995 | 3,799 | #92 |
| 1996 | 4,466 | #78 |
| 1997 | 4,439 | #75 |
| 1998 | 4,276 | #75 |
| 1999 | 4,474 | #71 |
| 2000 | 5,022 | #65 |
| 2001 | 4,864 | #62 |
| 2002 | 4,657 | #67 |
| 2003 | 4,585 | #68 |
| 2004 | 4,379 | #74 |
| 2005 | 3,973 | #83 |
| 2006 | 3,791 | #89 |
| 2007 | 3,408 | #99 |
| 2008 | 3,543 | #94 |
| 2009 | 3,624 | #87 |
| 2010 | 3,360 | #88 |
| 2011 | 3,370 | #87 |
| 2012 | 3,420 | #80 |
| 2013 | 3,983 | #63 |
| 2014 | 4,347 | #59 |
| 2015 | 4,333 | #62 |
| 2016 | 4,437 | #56 |
| 2017 | 4,294 | #55 |
| 2018 | 4,167 | #56 |
| 2019 | 3,919 | #61 |
| 2020 | 3,362 | #71 |
| 2021 | 3,202 | #80 |
| 2022 | 3,029 | #77 |
| 2023 | 2,868 | #83 |
| 2024 | 2,720 | #92 |
