Carolynn

given name · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • CACanada≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 64K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 69K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

Sources
335 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)

Antigua & Barbuda, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carolynn 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 Carolynn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 102K—Carolynn3
US United States—5,1781 in 64K5.2KCarolynn335
GB United Kingdom—≈960 est.≈1 in 69K3Carolynn101
CA Canada—≈780 est.≈1 in 48K1Carolynn101
ID Indonesia—≈580 est.≈1 in 459K—Carolynn9
IS Iceland—≈7 est.≈1 in 49KlistedCarolynn3
AG Antigua & Barbuda#262≈3 est.≈1 in 31K—Carolynn2

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the is-skra-nofn register. 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)

Carolynn is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Caro-Lynn

41 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)

19401960198020002020Carolynn Reid-Wallace, b. 1942Carolynn Patten, b. 2000Malaya Jones, b. 2002

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)

InformalHi Carolynn,

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 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Carolynn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.2K#3,812
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1942169—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1947168—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1944165—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1946163—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1943160—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1945143—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1948139—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1949130—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1941123—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1952122—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1961109—

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

How do you pronounce Carolynn?
A machine transcription gives /kɑɹoʊʎin/ (IPA) for English.
Is Carolynn a male or female name?
Carolynn 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 Carolynn have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Carolynn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carolynn.
How common is the name Carolynn?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,178 people named Carolynn in 2020, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
How common is Carolynn compared with other names?
In Antigua & Barbuda, Carolynn is the 262nd most common given name of 3,327 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Carolynn” — the 262nd most common given name in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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