Coraline
Coraline reached its high-water mark in 2015 at number 579, and has been recorded 6,786 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 683rd. About 6,700 Coralines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 7.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Coraline
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,786
- Estimated living today
- 6,700
- Median age today
- 7
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 579th
- Rank in 2025
- 683rd
- First recorded
- 1970
How old the living Coralines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,786 babies given the name since 1970, about 6,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 6,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2018 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a coined name
An elaborate form of Coralie, itself derived from coral. Name of a character in Adolphe Adam's opera Le toréador.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Coralines
- Coraline Ada Ehmke (born 2000)software developer and open source community activist
- Coraline Vitalis (born 1995)French fencer
People named Coraline with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Coraline is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Coraline is most concentrated in Oregon (2.4×), Colorado (2.1×), Washington (2.0×), Nevada (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular girls’ names the year Coraline peaked:
Coraline elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Coraline | 8,990 | 140th |
| Belgium girls | Coraline | 384 | 255th |
| England and Wales girls | Coraline | 121 | 2,090th |
| Switzerland girls | Coraline | 79 | 456th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Coraline: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Coraline | 6 | 0.000% | 865th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Coraline | 70 | 0.016% | 163rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Coraline | 3 | 0.005% | 162nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Coraline is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Coraline: rank by region
In 2019, Coraline was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Coraline | 504 | 5 |
In 2024, Coraline was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Coraline | 8 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Coraline against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.