Carolina

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Carolina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 93rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Carolina (Karolina) är en femininform till latinets Carolus (→ Karl).

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay1 in 127◐
  • PLPoland1 in 130
  • CZCzechia1 in 145

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1M ●

across 15 countries

#220 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
429 ●

3.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 130 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

CarolinaLatin · Spanish●5.3M records
КаролинаCyrillic · Russian●82K records
ΚαρολιναGreek · Greek●354 records
ᲙაროლინაGeorgian · Georgian●185 records
ԿարոլինաArmenian · Armenian●2 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karolina in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, SE Sweden and 4 more, Karolin in DK Denmark, DE Germany, CR Costa Rica, Каролина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Кароліна in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Carolina (Karolina) är en femininform till latinets Carolus (→ Karl). Namnet var mycket populärt under 1800-talet, då ofta stavat med K. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 20 maj. I den sydsvenska folktraditionen skulle man så lin på Karolinadagen, vilket ansågs föra lycka med sig.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Carolina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#931,810,9291M rec.—275Carolina181
VE Venezuela#25881,401799K rec.——Carolina126
MX Mexico#117482,058356K rec.—1.7KCarolina249
CL Chile#25466,80936K rec.—74Carolina186
CO Colombia#21374,63479K rec.—115Carolina226
PL Poland#37295,011△52K rec.1 in 130295KKarolina230
PY Paraguay#18248,27058K rec.——Carolina55
PE Peru#143218,551169K rec.——Carolina106
US United States—198,800203K rec.1 in 1.7K199KCarolina429
BR Brazil#172195,454183K rec.1 in 1.1K214KCarolina249
FR France—156,560△29 rec.1 in 433157K—7
SV El Salvador#18125,73093K rec.——Carolina71

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish5.3M55%
  • Portuguese3M31%
  • English515K5%
  • Catalan70K1%
  • Western Frisian43K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish5,263,89355%
Portuguese3,002,97231%
English515,2665%
Catalan69,7341%
Western Frisian43,2501%

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◐

Carolina is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name690K records spelled Carolina22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Netherlands, Venezuela

    Languages: English, Western Frisian, Dutch

    Also written Carolína, Càrolinà, Carolìna, Carôlìna, Çarolina

  • Indonesian given name20K records spelled Carolina2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Peru, Philippines, United States

    Also written Carolína

  • Swedish given name18K records spelled Carolina9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Cärölïnâ, Cärölinâ, Carolína

  • English given name17K records spelled Carolina188 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Australia

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Carolyn, Carlota, Carolin, Karolyn, קרולין

  • Finnish given name13K records spelled Carolina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Càrolinà

80 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●

Carolina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Diminutivo femenino de Carlos.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In English, J. early American colony

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, city, Puerto Rico

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In French, Forme féminine de Charles, du germanique Karl « homme libre ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Féminin de Charles, germanique karl, « homme libre ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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●

05001K1.5K1900195020001.3K · 2004

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Carolina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188013
188110
188210
188320
188413
188518
188625
188719
188824
188927
189023
189121
189228
189324
189434
189535
189628
189717
189824
189915
190040
190137
190231
190332
190444
190530
190644
190733
190845
190939
191043
191156
191263
191358
191477
1915100
1916111
1917102
191898
1919109
1920132
1921137
1922118
1923128
1924144
1925145
1926120
1927125
1928145
1929153
1930132
1931110
1932112
1933117
1934104
193597
193694
1937107
1938101
193995
194078
194198
194281
1943131
1944124
1945114
1946119
1947128
1948114
1949115
1950104
1951113
1952108
1953126
1954109
1955103
1956107
1957127
1958105
1959101
1960143
1961166
1962172
1963173
1964227
1965194
1966193
1967161
1968185
1969173
1970213
1971189
1972166
1973227
1974199
1975247
1976248
1977269
1978399
1979436
1980455
1981435
1982398
1983422
1984377
1985404
1986466
1987481
1988524
1989794
1990910
1991860
1992917
1993949
19941,049
1995989
19961,054
19971,073
19981,011
19991,036
20001,204
20011,207
20021,074
20031,216
20041,270
20051,133
20061,196
20071,020
2008925
2009828
2010822
2011729
2012723
2013712
2014788
2015732
2016775
2017722
2018740
2019756
2020684
2021609
2022664
2023730
2024718
2025769

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

175018001850190019502000Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry, b. 1798Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, b. 1861Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, b. 1862Natalia Verbeke, b. 1975Carolina Klüft, b. 1983Carolina Kostner, b. 1987Karol G, b. 1991Carolina Yuste, b. 1991Carolina Marín, b. 1993Eva De Dominici, b. 1995

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●

Attested in 110 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Carolina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—191K#272
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022174K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—174K#189
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—70K#135
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202069K#736
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—67K#72
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202417K#123
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16K#263
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—13K#298
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—8.8K#70
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—6.8K#142
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20206K—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,296 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Carolina?
We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Carolina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Carolina have the most bearers?
Carolina is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled carolina.
How common is Carolina compared with other names?
In Argentina, Carolina is the 93rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Carolina a male or female name?
Carolina 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 Carolina mean?
Recorded meaning: Carolina (Karolina) är en femininform till latinets Carolus (→ Karl).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carolina” — the 93rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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