# Karoline (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/karoline/  
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 | 3,862 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,862 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14, 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 | 87 | 2,182 |
| 2012 | 92 | 2,086 |
| 2013 | 114 | 1,800 |
| 2014 | 107 | 1,885 |
| 2015 | 133 | 1,615 |
| 2016 | 126 | 1,699 |
| 2017 | 139 | 1,576 |
| 2018 | 105 | 1,905 |
| 2019 | 118 | 1,752 |
| 2020 | 72 | 2,429 |
| 2021 | 88 | 2,144 |
| 2022 | 84 | 2,236 |
| 2023 | 83 | 2,251 |
| 2024 | 102 | 1,951 |
| 2025 | 119 | 1,718 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Karoline

- Karoline Leavitt, American writer and political aide (born 1997)
- Karoline Herfurth, German actress
- Princess Auguste Karoline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noble (1764-1788)
- Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt, German artist, naturalist, art collector and entomologist (1723-1783)
- Karoline Schuch, German actress
- Karoline Eichhorn, German actress
- Karoline Edtstadler, Austrian lawyer and politician
- Karoline Pichler, Austrian writer
- Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg, Countess of Erbach-Schönberg by birth and by marriage Princess of Reuss-Ebersdorf
- Karoline de Souza, Brazilian handball player
- Karoline Jagemann, German opera singer
- Karoline Smidt Nielsen, association football player

## 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.