Carolina is the feminine form of Carolus, the Latinized version of the Germanic name Karl. It means ‘(free) man’ and its English form is Charles.
Carolina is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Carolina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Carolina ranks 408. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Carolina. In the entire USA, approximately 40,702 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Carolina. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Carolina annualy. This means that there have been girls named Carolina who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Carolina have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2004 it holds its present record at #242 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Carolina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Carolina has never been ranked higher than #242. In 2022, she rivaled the 439 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 662 girls named Carolina were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Carolina were born, there have been 916 newborns who were given this name.
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 Carolina 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 Carolina 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 Carolina, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Orange
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Carolina
Carolina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Carolina sounds like this:
