Carolyne

given name · Latin script

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

Carolyne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. englischer übernommener männl. Vom., Weiterbildung Herkunft, moderne Nebenform von.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 81K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 114K
  • GYGuyana1 in 94K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,927 people, 2020

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

weibl. Vom. englischer übernommener männl. Vom., Weiterbildung Herkunft, moderne Nebenform von

Sources 2

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carolyne 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 Carolyne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,9271 in 114K2.9KCarolyne65
BR Brazil—2,6191 in 81K2.6KCarolyne79
NL Netherlands—391 in 443K39—2
SE Sweden—301 in 340K30—1
ES Spain—281 in 1.8M28—15
CR Costa Rica—191 in 268K19—6
GY Guyana—81 in 94K8——
UG Uganda#363——3Carolyne1

2,927 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Carolyne is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Caro-Lyne

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Philippines

    Also written Caro-Lyne

51 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, b. 1819Carolyne M. Van Vliet, b. 1929Carolyne Barry, b. 1943Carolyne Christie, b. 1946Carolyne Wright, b. 1949Carolyne Roehm, b. 1951Carolyne Mas, b. 1955Carolyne Larrington, b. 1959Carolyne Lepage, b. 1975

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 42 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Carolyne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.9K#5,729
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.6K#4,281
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20202.6K—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—2.3K#2,484
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.3K#5,440
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20102.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20001.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20001.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202060—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—39#9,826
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—30#18,952

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Carolyne mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. englischer übernommener männl. Vom., Weiterbildung Herkunft, moderne Nebenform von
Is Carolyne a male or female name?
Carolyne 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.
In which country does Carolyne have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Carolyne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carolyne.
Where is Carolyne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carolyne is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 81 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Carolyne?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,927 people named Carolyne in 2020, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
How common is Carolyne compared with other names?
In Uganda, Carolyne is the 363rd most common given name of 2,133 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, “Carolyne” — the 363rd most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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