Caraline is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Caraline is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Caraline. In the SmartGenius ranking, Caraline is #3,612 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Caraline.
In fact, the name Caraline did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Caraline seemed to be more popular than ever in 2016. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,750, 54 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Caraline, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Caraline was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Caraline a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #5,665 - with a total of 18 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Caraline are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Caraline is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky or Missouri. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Caraline live in Tennessee, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 319,205 would turn around if you called the name Caraline across Tennessee.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With eight letters, the name Caraline is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Caraline and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Caraline, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Caraline
Caraline
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
R
A
L
I
N
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
R
A
L
I
N
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Caraline sounds like this:
