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Carolyn name image The table below indicates the number of times the name Carolyn has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Carolyn
Use of the Name Carolyn for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
406000000
The table below indicates the number of times the name Carolyn has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Carolyn
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
1880  16380
1881  19560
1882  21862
1883  23459
1884  21875
1885  20986
1886  21983
1887  20897
1888  203123
1889  199133
1890  217124
1891  230110
1892  239122
1893  211146
1894  219147
1895  227149
1896  227149
1897  227145
1898  225169
1899  231141
1900  230187
1901  236149
1902  224180
1903  240157
1904  226184
1905  212211
1906  235184
1907  256183
1908  200279
1909  193300
1910  199331
1911  186384
1912  188516
1913  170676
1914  168834
1915  1671,101
1916  1631,215
1917  1641,224
1918  1661,333
1919  1661,326
1920  1501,553
1921  1451,754
1922  1441,707
1923  1322,004
1924  1272,225
1925  1272,193
1926  1142,412
1927  992,809
1928  912,846
1929  773,274
1930  723,720
1931  604,005
1932  464,585
1933  405,045
1934  336,473
1935  286,961
1936  237,906
193794144208,940
1938  1510,580
1939  1411,295
1940940461512,670
1941825591116,274
1942833611019,992
1943741761120,298
1944746691118,663
1945882511217,238
1946  1219,831
1947  1520,732
1948  1418,615
1949  1717,387
1950  2015,581
1951  2215,174
1952  2414,259
1953  2512,893
1954  2712,154
1955  3011,174
1956  3310,630
1957  3311,578
1958  3710,801
1959  429,734
1960  439,410
1961  4210,483
1962  469,687
1963  568,139
1964  558,072
1965  586,971
1966  606,120
1967  605,731
1968  615,543
1969  715,134
1970  844,520
1971  1043,610
1972  1102,994
1973  1162,579
1974  1182,478
1975  1192,343
1976  1292,116
1977  1292,194
1978  1302,173
1979  1382,055
1980  1471,923
1981  1441,962
1982  1452,010
1983  1501,908
1984  1551,817
1985  1551,838
1986  1621,726
1987  1481,814
1988  1591,797
1989  1591,809
1990  1691,713
1991  1931,559
1992  1961,517
1993  2001,471
1994  2311,228
1995  2431,170
1996  2331,207
1997  2761,059
1998  327900
1999  2981,033
2000  3081,024
2001  348862
2002  366811
2003  429696
2004  420716
Totals:  406 549,101

During the last 125 years, parents have used Carolyn as a boy's name about 0% of the time and more frequently (about 99% of the time) as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Carolyn appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 7 times during the last 125 years.

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