Carolina Girl
How popular is Carolina?
#405 girl name in 2025
769 baby girls were named Carolina in the US in 2025, making it the 405th most popular girl name.
Carolina popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #405 for girls (▲ 24 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 769 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+5% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #432 in 2015, #450 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2004 (1,270 girls) |
| Highest rank | #254 in 2004 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Carolina counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Carolina family of names ranked #341 for girls in 2025 (#355 the year before), with 952 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Carolina | 769 | 81% |
| Karolina | 177 | 19% |
| Carolyna | 6 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Carolina is most popular
Babies named Carolina per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 1.2 per 1,000 (925 girls)
- New Mexico: 0.8 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- Arizona: 0.7 per 1,000 (104 girls)
- California: 0.7 per 1,000 (575 girls)
- Florida: 0.7 per 1,000 (292 girls)
Carolina by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 179 | #423 |
| 1890s | 249 | #487 |
| 1900s | 375 | #493 |
| 1910s | 817 | #573 |
| 1920s | 1,347 | #551 |
| 1930s | 1,069 | #597 |
| 1940s | 1,102 | #662 |
| 1950s | 1,103 | #825 |
| 1960s | 1,787 | #677 |
| 1970s | 2,593 | #463 |
| 1980s | 4,756 | #320 |
| 1990s | 9,848 | #268 |
| 2000s | 11,073 | #254 |
| 2010s | 7,499 | #389 |
| 2020s | 4,174 | #405 |
Girl names about as popular as Carolina
Questions
- Is Carolina a boy or girl name?
- Carolina is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Carolina were girls.
- How popular is the name Carolina?
- 769 baby girls were named Carolina in the US in 2025, making it the 405th most popular girl name.
- When was Carolina most popular?
- Carolina peaked in 2004, when 1,270 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #254 in 2004.
- How many people are named Carolina?
- 48,108 babies have been named Carolina in the US since 1880. We estimate about 43,007 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 26.
- Where is Carolina most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Carolina was most common in Texas, at 1.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.