Carolina

What Carolina means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Carolina yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #405 vs #1,512 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Carolina?

US: Steady: #432 in 2015, #405 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #845 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2004, when 1,270 girls got the name (#254 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,090 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,664 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in TX (1.22 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), SC (0.93 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Carolina is #405 in the US and #1512 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Carolina were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Karolina177 US · 13 E&W
• Carolena9 US
• Caralina6 US
• Carolyna6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Carolina

Girls

• Julia#131Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2001, with 8,838 babies; 2,172 in 2025
• Paulina#783“small”^*
• Diana#244“goddess”^*
• Anna#107Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #107 in 2025
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025
• Emily#34“rival, emulator”^*

For a brother

• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Victor#209“conqueror”^*
• Anthony#46“flower”^*
• Justin#233“just”^*
• Marcus#258Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 5,996 babies; 1,341 in 2025
• Martin#335“of or like Mars”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Carolina’s. Rank is US 2025.