Karolina Girl
How popular is Karolina?
#1,261 girl name in 2025
177 baby girls were named Karolina in the US in 2025, making it the 1261st most popular girl name.
Karolina popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,261 for girls (▼ 11 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 177 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+40% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,685 in 2015, #1,623 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2007 (190 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,250 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 1917 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Karolina counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Carolina family of names ranked #341 for girls in 2025 (#355 the year before), with 952 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Carolina | 769 | 81% |
| Karolina | 177 | 19% |
| Carolyna | 6 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Karolina is most popular
Babies named Karolina per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.2 per 1,000 (199 girls)
- Illinois: 0.2 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (79 girls)
- Arizona: 0.2 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (132 girls)
Karolina by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,592 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,973 |
| 1960s | 10 | #6,538 |
| 1970s | 38 | #6,664 |
| 1980s | 176 | #3,098 |
| 1990s | 798 | #1,502 |
| 2000s | 1,489 | #1,288 |
| 2010s | 1,242 | #1,388 |
| 2020s | 908 | #1,250 |
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Questions
- Is Karolina a boy or girl name?
- Karolina is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Karolina were girls.
- How popular is the name Karolina?
- 177 baby girls were named Karolina in the US in 2025, making it the 1261st most popular girl name.
- When was Karolina most popular?
- Karolina peaked in 2007, when 190 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,250 in 2024.
- How many people are named Karolina?
- 4,676 babies have been named Karolina in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,618 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 17.
- Where is Karolina most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Karolina was most common in Texas, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.