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Girl's name · #405 in the US (2025) · Trending
Carolina is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it is ranked #405 in 2025, with about 770 girls given the name last year. Roughly 48,000 have carried it all-time. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
See where Carolina is more common.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 33 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Carolina is especially popular in Portugal.
#6 in Portugal (2023) · #52 in Mexico (2024) · #133 in Austria (2025) · #227 in Puerto Rico (2025) · #245 in Switzerland (2025) · #446 in Ecuador (2025) · #462 in Norway (2025) · #756 in Ireland (2025) · #1,041 in Belgium (2025) · #1,303 in France (2025) · #1,522 in Sweden (2025) · #1,526 in England & Wales (2025) and 1 more.
Among 1,132 notable people named Carolina:
Entertainers appear 1.73× more often than among typical names — e.g. Carolina Dieckmann, Brazilian actress.
Together with its spelling variant Karolina (#1267), Carolina would rank around #324 with about 950 births last year — the newborns split about 81/19 between Carolina and Karolina.
Similar names: Carolyn · Serena · Katalina · Angelina · Viviana · Celina
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