Caroline

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Danish (also French and English) form of Carolina (see also -line) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

See Carolina

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Caroline
Genitive: Carolines
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Caroline
Genitive: Carolinen
Partitive: Carolinea
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Caroline
Genitive: Carolines
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Caroline
Genitive: Carolines

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

20 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 3973 people were named Caroline (percentage of first or only given name: 22 %) [7]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
18727 33229 18727 33227 0 2
Denmark Denmark[9]
12189
n.a.
12189
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
1749
n.a.
1749 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
18 31
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
6 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
5626
n.a.
5626
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Caroline (f) Sources: [8][9][13][10]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Caroline (f) Sources: [14]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Caroline (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. details see Name Statistic tables