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Carolyn
Pronounced /ˈkɛɹəlɪn/
Rank in 2024
#1,166
Born in 2024
206
Peak year
1947 · #15
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 206 girls were named Carolyn, about 1 in every 7,831.
- It peaked in 1947 with 20,741 babies, ranked #15.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 556,593 girls have been named Carolyn since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Carolyn per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.3Greatest1901–27
- 8.8Silent1928–45
- 6.9Boomers1946–64
- 2.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 27,421 babies, 1.34 per 1,000. Silent: 180,829 babies, 8.75 per 1,000. Boomers: 246,531 babies, 6.88 per 1,000. Gen X: 58,450 babies, 2.29 per 1,000. Millennials: 26,587 babies, 0.94 per 1,000. Gen Z: 10,845 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,488 babies, 0.17 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
A variant of Caroline with -lyn.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, a variant of Caroline used since the 19th century.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈkɛɹəlɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Carolyn, CC BY-SA 4.0.