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How popular is “Carolina” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carolina” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carolina” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Carolina” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Carolina” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Carolina” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Carolina” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carolina” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 13 0.000064521 13 100%
1881 10 0.000051897 10 100%
1882 10 0.00004514 10 100%
1883 20 0.000092189 20 100%
1884 13 0.000053397 13 100%
1885 18 0.000074734 18 100%
1886 25 0.000097918 25 100%
1887 19 0.000076801 19 100%
1888 24 0.000080141 24 100%
1889 27 0.000093443 27 100%
1890 23 0.00007631 23 100%
1891 21 0.000073254 21 100%
1892 28 0.000083739 28 100%
1893 24 0.000073796 24 100%
1894 34 0.000100387 34 100%
1895 35 0.000099709 35 100%
1896 28 0.000078325 28 100%
1897 17 0.000048997 17 100%
1898 24 0.000062917 24 100%
1899 15 0.000044217 15 100%
1900 40 0.000088838 40 100%
1901 37 0.000106995 37 100%
1902 31 0.000080159 31 100%
1903 32 0.000083945 32 100%
1904 44 0.00010905 44 100%
1905 30 0.000070768 30 100%
1906 44 0.000102696 44 100%
1907 33 0.000070908 33 100%
1908 45 0.000092091 45 100%
1909 39 0.000076287 39 100%
1910 43 0.000072794 43 100%
1911 56 0.000086919 56 100%
1912 63 0.000063761 63 100%
1913 58 0.000051007 58 100%
1914 77 0.000054365 77 100%
1915 100 0.000054572 100 100%
1916 111 0.000057382 111 100%
1917 102 0.000050828 102 100%
1918 98 0.000045138 98 100%
1919 109 0.000051653 109 100%
1920 132 0.000058339 132 100%
1921 137 0.000058685 137 100%
1922 118 0.000051547 118 100%
1923 128 0.000055592 128 100%
1924 149 0.000062563 144 5 93%
1925 145 0.000062144 145 100%
1926 120 0.000052267 120 100%
1927 125 0.000053894 125 100%
1928 145 0.000064133 145 100%
1929 159 0.000072531 153 6 92%
1930 132 0.000059372 132 100%
1931 110 0.000052272 110 100%
1932 112 0.000053048 112 100%
1933 117 0.000058516 117 100%
1934 104 0.000050077 104 100%
1935 103 0.000049285 97 6 88%
1936 94 0.000045245 94 100%
1937 107 0.000050219 107 100%
1938 101 0.000045648 101 100%
1939 95 0.000043114 95 100%
1940 78 0.000033874 78 100%
1941 103 0.000042275 98 5 90%
1942 81 0.000029651 81 100%
1943 131 0.000046412 131 100%
1944 130 0.000048326 124 6 91%
1945 114 0.000042972 114 100%
1946 119 0.000037242 119 100%
1947 128 0.000035533 128 100%
1948 114 0.000033019 114 100%
1949 115 0.000033001 115 100%
1950 104 0.000029686 104 100%
1951 113 0.000030675 113 100%
1952 108 0.000028436 108 100%
1953 126 0.000032696 126 100%
1954 109 0.000027382 109 100%
1955 103 0.000025653 103 100%
1956 107 0.000025952 107 100%
1957 127 0.000030223 127 100%
1958 105 0.0000254 105 100%
1959 101 0.000024291 101 100%
1960 143 0.000034426 143 100%
1961 167 0.000040316 167 100%
1962 171 0.000042375 171 100%
1963 173 0.000043707 173 100%
1964 227 0.000058391 227 100%
1965 194 0.000053511 194 100%
1966 193 0.000055529 193 100%
1967 161 0.000047424 161 100%
1968 185 0.000054759 185 100%
1969 173 0.00004978 173 100%
1970 213 0.00005906 213 100%
1971 189 0.000055064 189 100%
1972 166 0.000052816 166 100%
1973 227 0.000075243 227 100%
1974 199 0.000065461 199 100%
1975 247 0.000081804 247 100%
1976 248 0.000081732 248 100%
1977 269 0.000084685 269 100%
1978 399 0.000125714 399 100%
1979 444 0.000133454 437 7 97%
1980 461 0.000133836 455 6 97%
1981 440 0.000127191 435 5 98%
1982 407 0.000116022 398 9 96%
1983 428 0.00012358 422 6 97%
1984 377 0.000108061 377 100%
1985 413 0.000115715 404 9 96%
1986 474 0.000133255 466 8 97%
1987 487 0.000135067 481 6 98%
1988 524 0.000141812 524 100%
1989 810 0.000210693 794 16 96%
1990 917 0.000232006 910 7 98%
1991 868 0.000222835 860 8 98%
1992 917 0.000238723 917 100%
1993 955 0.000253297 949 6 99%
1994 1054 0.000283512 1049 5 99%
1995 994 0.000271425 988 6 99%
1996 1059 0.00029036 1054 5 99%
1997 1073 0.000295939 1073 100%
1998 1011 0.000274862 1011 100%
1999 1036 0.000280465 1036 100%
2000 1204 0.000318527 1204 100%
2001 1207 0.000322435 1207 100%
2002 1074 0.000287297 1074 100%
2003 1216 0.000319805 1216 100%
2004 1270 0.00033238 1270 100%
2005 1133 0.00029468 1133 100%
2006 1196 0.000302311 1196 100%
2007 1020 0.000255148 1020 100%
2008 925 0.000235329 925 100%
2009 828 0.000216744 828 100%
2010 822 0.000222418 822 100%
2011 729 0.000199301 729 100%
2012 723 0.000197683 723 100%
2013 712 0.0001953 712 100%
2014 787 0.000212337 787 100%
2015 732 0.000197789 732 100%
2016 775 0.000211247 775 100%
2017 722 0.000201891 722 100%
2018 740 0.000210473 740 100%
2019 756 0.000217809 756 100%
2020 684 0.000204755 684 100%
2021 608 0.00017946 608 100%
2022 664 0.000196268 664 100%
2023 728 0.00021986 728 100%
2024 716 0.000215112 716 100%

Explore other names

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  1. Caroletta
  2. Carolette
  3. Carolgene
  4. Carolie
  5. Carolin
  6. Carolina (this page)
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  8. Caroline
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  10. Caroljean
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