Carola

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in German: a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Carolus, Latin form of Karl (=Charles)

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

/kaɾola/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Carola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 29th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 2.5K
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 6.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

8,098 people

Sources
175 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Carolus, Latin form of Karl (=Charles)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

How Carola is read(measured from records)

Carola is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish46%

    Variante de Carla.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • German30%

    a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Carolus, Latin form of Karl (=Charles)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    ) Karola: weibl. Vom., weibliche

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English10%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Carola in English.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Carola is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden—8,0981 in 1.3K8.1KCarola29
CL Chile#331≈8,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K4Carola102
NL Netherlands—7,9741 in 2.2K7.9KCarola35
AR Argentina#648≈6,600 est.≈1 in 6.9K170Carola99
IT Italy—≈6,300 est.≈1 in 9.9K129Carola123
BO Bolivia#29≈4,700 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Carola39
FI Finland—1,9131 in 2.9K2.4KCarola8

8,098 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • German given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Sweden, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Swedish

    Also written Carol-A, Caro-La, Caròla, Caróla, Càrolà

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Cärola

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Netherlands, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written CarÔla, Caròla, Carolà

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Carolà, CarÔla, Caròla

  • English given name187 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Carolyn, Carlota, Carolin, Karolyn, Carolina

53 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(measured from records)

Carola 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 Swedish, Carola är en femininform till Carolus, som är en latinsk form av → Karl. Namnet uttalas med betoning på antingen första eller andra stavelsen, där det första uttalet [ká:rola] är äldre. En känd namnbärare är den svenska sångerskan Carola Häggkvist (f. 1966). I den rikssvenska almanackan 20 maj och i den finlandssvenska 28 januari.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Swedish, a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Karl

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, someone who tonsures their hair

    as a wordkaikki.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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

175018001850190019502000Princess Maria Carolina, Duchess of Berry, b. 1798Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, b. 1861Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, b. 1862Carola Häggkvist, b. 1966Patricia Velásquez, b. 1971Carolina Klüft, b. 1983Carolina Kostner, b. 1987Karol G, b. 1991Carolina Yuste, b. 1991Carolina Marín, b. 1993

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Carola,Hi Carola, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 71 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Carola
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8.1K#463
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—7.9K#285
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204.5K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—4.5K#771
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.4K#487
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.9K—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)2024129#176
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)2015114—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)2015114—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—71#5,431
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)202447#1,094
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#19,900

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Carola mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Carolus, Latin form of Karl (=Charles) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Carola?
A machine transcription gives /kaɾola/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Carola a male or female name?
Carola 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 are other forms of the name Carola?
In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Carola have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 8.1 thousand people named Carola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carola.
Where is Carola most common?
Carola is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Carola?
In Sweden, the national register counted 8,098 people named Carola, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
How common is Carola compared with other names?
In Bolivia, Carola is the 29th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Carola” — the 29th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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