Carline

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Carline is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name30K records spelled Carline5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, France, Dominican Republic

  Languages: Portuguese, French, Spanish

  Also written Carliñe

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Carline is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, carline thistle

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, La carline peut, bien entendu, être la femelle du carlin mais aussi une plante renfermant des chardons. Le mot est le résultat d’une collision entre les mots chardon et Charles car une ancienne légende rattachait la plante à Charlemagne. Le grand agronome français Olivier de Serres affirmait en effet que cette herbe avait guéri l’armée de Charlemagne de la peste.

  as a name·2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

• In sco, woman, old woman, crone, hag

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 100 years between 1898–2008. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Judy Woodruffb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican broadcast journalist
• Carline Cappelleb. 1951FRFrench politician
• Carline Seiserb. 1960DEGerman actress
• Carline van Roosb. 1981FRFrench heavy metal musician
• Carline Bouwb. 1984NLDutch rower
• Carline Muirb. 1987CACanadian sprinter
• Carline van Breugelb. 1994NLformer politician from the Netherlands

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 153 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Carline?

We estimate roughly 4.4 thousand people bear Carline (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Carline have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.8 thousand people bear Carline in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled carline.

How common is Carline compared with other names?

In Haiti, Carline is the 44th most common given name of 608 given names recorded there.

Is Carline a male or female name?

Carline is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Carline mean?

Recorded meaning: A woman; a hag or witch.