Karolina
Karolina is a girl's name that peaked in 2007, when it was the 1,288th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,261st. About 4,600 Karolinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Karolina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,676
- Estimated living today
- 4,600
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 1,288th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,261st
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Karolinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,676 babies given the name since 1917, about 4,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Karolinas
- Karolína Plíšková (born 1992)Czech female tennis player
- Karolína Kurková (born 1984)Czech model
- Karolina Gočeva (born 1980)Macedonian singer
- Karolína Muchová (born 1996)Czech tennis player
- Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (born 1994)Slovak tennis player
- Karolina Šprem (born 1984)Croatian tennis player
- Karolina Bielawska (born 1999)Polish beauty pageant winner, Miss World 2021
- Karolina Světlá (1830–1899)Czech writer and bookwriter
People named Karolina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Karolina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Karolina is most concentrated in Illinois (4.3×), Texas (2.9×), Florida (2.4×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Karolina peaked:
Karolina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Karolina | 80,363 birth registrations | 6th |
| Norway girls | Karolina | 1,300 | 122nd |
| England and Wales girls | Karolina | 1,174 | 425th |
| Sweden girls | Karolina | 691 | 62nd |
| France girls | Karolina | 335 | 2,245th |
| Ireland girls | Karolina | 302 | 177th |
| Italy girls | Karolina | 280 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Karolina | 165 | 539th |
| Belgium girls | Karolina | 108 | 746th |
| Scotland girls | Karolina | 57 | 365th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Karolina | 46 | 237th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Karolina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Karolina | 138 | 0.011% | 463rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Karolina | 17 | 0.004% | 440th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Karolina | 10 | 0.015% | 122nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Karolina is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 48 of them.
Karolina: rank by region
In 2020, Karolina was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Karolina | 839 | 5 |
In 2025, Karolina was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Karolina | 53 | 41 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Karolina | 79 | 12 |
| Lubelskie | Karolina | 48 | 28 |
| Lubuskie | Karolina | 71 | 7 |
| Łódzkie | Karolina | 67 | 20 |
| Małopolskie | Karolina | 51 | 68 |
| Mazowieckie | Karolina | 64 | 65 |
| Opolskie | Karolina | 43 | 16 |
| Podkarpackie | Karolina | 51 | 31 |
| Podlaskie | Karolina | 53 | 15 |
| Pomorskie | Karolina | 72 | 25 |
| Śląskie | Karolina | 49 | 65 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Karolina | 59 | 9 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Karolina | 66 | 12 |
| Wielkopolskie | Karolina | 64 | 38 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Karolina | 55 | 18 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Karolina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 33 | 284th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Karolina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Karolina | 403 | 1,911 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,911 who carry it, 403 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Karolina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 974 women called Karolina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Karolina | 62 | 0.112 | 846 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Karolina | 89 | 0.087 | 894 |
| Huesca | Karolina | 8 | 0.071 | 898 |
| Málaga | Karolina | 64 | 0.070 | 924 |
| Girona | Karolina | 28 | 0.068 | 1,066 |
| Lleida | Karolina | 14 | 0.063 | 1,076 |
Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Karolina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.