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Caroline
Pronounced /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/
Rank in 2024
#92
Born in 2024
2,720
Peak year
2000 · #65
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,720 girls were named Caroline, about 1 in every 593.
- It peaked in 2000 with 5,022 babies, ranked #65.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 247,746 girls have been named Caroline since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Caroline per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.2Greatest1901–27
- 1.0Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.8Gen X1965–80
- 1.4Millennials1981–96
- 2.2Gen Z1997–12
- 2.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 24,725 babies, 1.21 per 1,000. Silent: 20,529 babies, 0.99 per 1,000. Boomers: 22,499 babies, 0.63 per 1,000. Gen X: 21,180 babies, 0.83 per 1,000. Millennials: 40,269 babies, 1.43 per 1,000. Gen Z: 65,185 babies, 2.24 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 44,661 babies, 2.20 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Learned borrowing from Latin carolīnus. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation, New York City, Boston, Southern US) IPA(key): /ˈkæɹ.əˌlaɪn/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/ ==== Adjective ==== Caroline (not comparable) Synonym of Carolean (“relating to the time of Kings Charles I and II of England or Charles III of the United Kingdom, or of the kings themselves”). ==== Noun ==== Caroline (plural Carolines) Synonym of Carolean. ===== Synonyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== Caroline minuscule ===== Related terms =====
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈkɛɹ.əˌlaɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Caroline, CC BY-SA 4.0.