Carolyn

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Creative spelling (English) of Carolin (see also -lyn) [1]

Related Names

See Carolina

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Carolyn
Genitive: Carolyns
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Carolyn
Genitive: Carolynin
Partitive: Carolynia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Carolyn
Genitive: Carolyns
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Carolyn
Genitive: Carolyns

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 42 people were named Carolyn (percentage of first or only given name: 36 %) [6]

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[7]
113 190 113 190 0 0
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
94
n.a.
94 0 0
Denmark Denmark[8]
31
n.a.
31
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
3 4
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[10]
77
n.a.
77
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
0 0
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Carolyn.


References

  1. Judith Ahrholdt: Nordic Names - www.nordicnames.de (2004-2024).
  2. Digitalarkivet at arkivverket.no, http://www.arkivverket.no
  3. Danish Family Search, https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk
  4. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  5. 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  11. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/