Karoline

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Karoline von Günderode, deutsche Schriftstellerin

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

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

Karoline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 5.9K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 93K
  • NONorway1 in 740

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

35,791 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
165 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 740 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KarolineLatin(measured from records)
ΚαρολινεGreek(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)

recorded in German

Karoline von Günderode, deutsche Schriftstellerin

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karoline 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 Karoline is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#44235,7911 in 5.9K36KKaroline165
NO Norway—7,3911 in 74028KKaroline26
DK Denmark—5,2531 in 1.1K5.3K——
US United States—3,5921 in 93K3.6KKaroline121
AT Austria—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 3K1.8K—1
SE Sweden—1,6761 in 6.1K1.7KKaroline15

35,791 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Karoline is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: English, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Karolinė, Karoliné, Karolíně

  • German given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, United States, Norway

    Also written Karolīne, Karolíne, Karoliné

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Belgium

    Also written Karo-Line, Kàroline, Kärölïnë

57 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)

Karoline 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.

  • In German, ) Caroline: weibl. Vom., Wei­ terbildung von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Norwegian, a female given name derived from French Caroline. Diminutives: Lina, Line

    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)

1700180019002000Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt, b. 1723Princess Auguste Karoline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, b. 1764Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, b. 1778Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, b. 1815Lotte Lenya, b. 1898Lina Radke, b. 1903Karoline Eichhorn, b. 1965Karoline Schuch, b. 1981Karoline Herfurth, b. 1984Karoline Leavitt, b. 1997

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)

InformalOlá Karoline,Hi Karoline, (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 64 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Karoline
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202236K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—36K#726
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28K#154
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—26K#1,192
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20257.4K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5.3K#133
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.6K#4,947
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20241.8K#181
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.7K#1,191
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020698—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020529—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—140#726

Reference works 3

  • 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

In which country does Karoline have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Karoline, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karoline.
Where is Karoline most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karoline is densest in Norway — about 1 in 740 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
What are other forms of the name Karoline?
In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Karoline?
A machine transcription gives /kaɾoʎiɲi/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
What does the name Karoline mean?
Recorded meaning: Karoline von Günderode, deutsche Schriftstellerin
Is Karoline a male or female name?
Karoline 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 common is the name Karoline?
In Brazil, the national register counted 35,791 people named Karoline in 2022, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
How common is Karoline compared with other names?
In Brazil, Karoline is the 442nd most common given name of 474,894 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, “Karoline” — the 442nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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