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Caraline

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Caraline is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
190.00% of girls
Peak year
201155 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1970
1,092people given the name
Babies named Caraline, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,092 girls have been named Caraline in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 55 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 39%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Caraline
1970s5
1980s37
1990s179
2000s334
2010s422
2020s115

In 2011, its biggest year

Caraline was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2011 were Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2011.

Names that rose and fell with Caraline

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.