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How popular is “Karoline” in the USA?

Number of people named “Karoline” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Karoline” 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 “Karoline” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Karoline” by birth year

This chart shows how “Karoline” 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
1915 6 0.000003274 6 100%
1916 7 0.000003619 7 100%
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 100%
1931 9 0.000004277 9 100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1937 6 0.000002816 6 100%
1939 7 0.000003177 7 100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 100%
1942 10 0.000003661 10 100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 100%
1953 6 0.000001557 6 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 100%
1958 10 0.000002419 10 100%
1959 14 0.000003367 14 100%
1960 15 0.000003611 15 100%
1961 27 0.000006518 27 100%
1962 29 0.000007186 29 100%
1963 18 0.000004548 18 100%
1964 34 0.000008746 34 100%
1965 30 0.000008275 30 100%
1966 19 0.000005467 19 100%
1967 20 0.000005891 20 100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 100%
1969 20 0.000005755 20 100%
1970 30 0.000008318 30 100%
1971 26 0.000007575 26 100%
1972 22 0.000007 22 100%
1973 22 0.000007292 22 100%
1974 17 0.000005592 17 100%
1975 17 0.00000563 17 100%
1976 17 0.000005603 17 100%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 100%
1978 21 0.000006617 21 100%
1979 25 0.000007514 25 100%
1980 22 0.000006387 22 100%
1981 23 0.000006649 23 100%
1982 16 0.000004561 16 100%
1983 22 0.000006352 22 100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 100%
1985 29 0.000008125 29 100%
1986 15 0.000004217 15 100%
1987 20 0.000005547 20 100%
1988 30 0.000008119 30 100%
1989 36 0.000009364 36 100%
1990 38 0.000009614 38 100%
1991 49 0.000012579 49 100%
1992 40 0.000010413 40 100%
1993 33 0.000008753 33 100%
1994 43 0.000011566 43 100%
1995 52 0.000014199 52 100%
1996 75 0.000020564 75 100%
1997 64 0.000017652 64 100%
1998 55 0.000014953 55 100%
1999 70 0.00001895 70 100%
2000 72 0.000019048 72 100%
2001 85 0.000022707 85 100%
2002 77 0.000020598 77 100%
2003 71 0.000018673 71 100%
2004 72 0.000018844 72 100%
2005 75 0.000019507 75 100%
2006 73 0.000018452 73 100%
2007 77 0.000019261 77 100%
2008 79 0.000020098 79 100%
2009 87 0.000022774 87 100%
2010 94 0.000025435 94 100%
2011 87 0.000023785 87 100%
2012 92 0.000025155 92 100%
2013 114 0.00003127 114 100%
2014 107 0.000028869 107 100%
2015 133 0.000035937 133 100%
2016 126 0.000034345 126 100%
2017 139 0.000038868 139 100%
2018 105 0.000029864 105 100%
2019 118 0.000033997 118 100%
2020 71 0.000021254 71 100%
2021 88 0.000025974 88 100%
2022 83 0.000024533 83 100%
2023 83 0.000025066 83 100%
2024 102 0.000030644 102 100%

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