The name Coraline was created by the French composer Adolphe Adam for his opera ‘Le toréador’ (1849). He probably based it on the name Coralie, which originated from the Greek name Koralia meaning ‘coral’.
Coraline is a female first name.
The name Coraline 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, Coraline ranks 595. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Coraline. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Coraline.
The name Coraline was created by the French composer Adolphe Adam for his opera ‘Le toréador’ (1849). He probably based it on the name Coralie, which originated from the Greek name Koralia meaning ‘coral’.
The name was also... used by author Neil Gaiman for his dark fantasy children's book 'Coraline' (2002), which was made into a movie in 2009.
You may not know anyone named Coraline, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 39 states are home to women and girls named Coraline. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Coraline living in one state or another. If your name is Coraline and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Oregon, which has the most people named Coraline relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,607 women and girls their names before you hear Coraline as an answer just once.
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 Coraline 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 Coraline 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 Coraline, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Rocket
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Coraline
Coraline
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
O
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
O
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. Coraline sounds like this:
