Caroline
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Feminine form of Charles; popular in Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kæɹəlaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caroline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Brazil it is the 93rd most common given name.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 722(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1K
- USUnited States1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Caroline itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- 1 in 302 (inferred from the name graph)
295,015 named Karolina, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine form of Charles; from Germanic *karl* ‘man, virile’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Caroline is read(measured from records)
Caroline is one spelling over 4 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.
- English46%
- French18%
- Portuguese18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Caroline in Portuguese.
- Swahili5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Caroline in Swahili.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Caroline 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 295,015as Karolina | 1 in 130 | 295K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 199,035 | 1 in 1.7K | 199K | Caroline | 338 |
| BR Brazil | #93 | 195,454 | 1 in 1.1K | 214K | Caroline | 227 |
| FR France | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 431 | 157K | Caroline | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | #898 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 722 | 6 | Caroline | 132 |
| SE Sweden | — | 33,781 | 1 in 302 | 34K | Caroline | 45 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12,516 | 1 in 469 | 13K | — | 1 |
295,015 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Caroline is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the French form of Latin or Italian Carolina, a feminine derivative of Carolus (see Charles). This name was used by certain gentry families from the 17th century onwards, no doubt in honour of the Stuart kings named Charles. Short forms: Caro; Carrie.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Feminine derivative of Latin Carolus. See }Charles in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Alexandra of Denmarkb. 1844DKnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyllb. 1848GBnot in their usual nameViceregal consort of Canada (1848–1939)
- Caroline Aaronb. 1952USAmerican actress
- Caroline Kennedyb. 1957USAmerican author and diplomat (born 1957)
- Victoria Beckhamb. 1974GBnot in their usual nameEnglish businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
- Olivia Colmanb. 1974GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Gisele Bündchenb. 1980BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian fashion model
- Kirsten Dunstb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1982)
- Lindsey Vonnb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican alpine skier (born 1984)
- Caroline Wozniackib. 1990DKDanish tennis player
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)
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 112 sources across 59 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 214K | #243 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 199K | #279 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 195K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 195K | #164 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 157K | #1,033 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34K | #126 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 19K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13K | #55 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #451 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.2K | #451 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Caroline come from?
- Feminine form of Charles; from Germanic *karl* ‘man, virile’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Caroline?
- In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages; Carrie, Callie and Carry are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Caroline a male or female name?
- Caroline 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.
- How do you pronounce Caroline?
- A machine transcription gives /kæɹəlaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Caroline have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 295 thousand people named Karolina, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Caroline most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caroline is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 302 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Caroline mean?
- In English, Feminine form of Charles; popular in Ireland.
- How common is the name Caroline?
- In the United States, the national register counted 199,035 people named Caroline in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Caroline compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Caroline is the 93rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carolineThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Caroline” — the 93rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.