# Karolina (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/karolina/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,676 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 4,676 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,174, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 124 | 1,698 |
| 2012 | 118 | 1,754 |
| 2013 | 116 | 1,770 |
| 2014 | 134 | 1,610 |
| 2015 | 126 | 1,689 |
| 2016 | 116 | 1,791 |
| 2017 | 124 | 1,719 |
| 2018 | 104 | 1,919 |
| 2019 | 114 | 1,793 |
| 2020 | 128 | 1,626 |
| 2021 | 107 | 1,867 |
| 2022 | 145 | 1,500 |
| 2023 | 165 | 1,366 |
| 2024 | 186 | 1,256 |
| 2025 | 177 | 1,267 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 79 | 530 |
| 2012 | 94 | 475 |
| 2013 | 74 | 554 |
| 2014 | 61 | 652 |
| 2015 | 66 | 625 |
| 2016 | 72 | 585 |
| 2017 | 54 | 740 |
| 2018 | 57 | 701 |
| 2019 | 50 | 761 |
| 2020 | 31 | 1,065 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,866 |
| 2022 | 19 | 1,556 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2024 | 10 | 2,574 |
| 2025 | 13 | 2,138 |

## People named Karolina

- Karolína Plíšková, Czech female tennis player
- Karolína Kurková, Czech model
- Karolína Muchová, Czech tennis player (born 1996)
- Karolina Šprem, Croatian tennis player
- Karolína Erbanová, Czech ice hockey player and retired speed skater
- Karolina Gerhardinger, Bavarian sister, educator (1797–1879)
- Karolina Grohová, Czech cross-country skier
- Karolina Wisniewska, Canadian Para-alpine standing skier
- Karolina Slunéčková, Czech actress (1934–1983)
- Karolína Peake, Czech politician
- Karolina Kaczorowska, First Lady of Poland
- Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt, German artist, naturalist, art collector and entomologist (1723-1783)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.