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Carlosmanuel vs Caroline

American parents have registered 250,719 Carolines since 1880, against 50 Carlosmanuels. Caroline is still ahead, with 2,646 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Carlosmanuel against Caroline, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Carlosmanuel Caroline

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Caroline has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Carlosmanuel had 16 and Caroline had 4,872.

Side by side

  Carlosmanuel Caroline
Total US births 50250,719
Most in one year 165,029
Babies in 2025 under 52,646
Estimated living today 50196,000
Median age today 2225
Peak year 20012000
Best rank 4,676th boys65th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked96th
First recorded 20011880
Girls / boys 0 / 50250,410 / 309

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Carolines alive today are over 25; half the Carlosmanuels are over 22. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Carlosmanuel and Caroline.