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Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Caroline: French, feminine variation of Carolus Meaning of Caroline: "free man" Caroline's Popularity in 2012: #80
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Caroline is a perennial classic, in the Top 100 since 1994. It is now at Number 87--roughly the same position it held in 1885. Caroline has an elegant patina, calling to mind the Kennedy Camelot years and Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Caroline came to England with George II's wife, the German Queen Caroline of Ansbach in 1705, and then George IV married another German Caroline in 1795. In the US, Caroline has been a First Lady name via President Benjamin Harrison. Jane Austen named one of her less pleasant characters in Pride and Prejudice Caroline, and the name was also borne by Lady Caroline Lamb, the mistress of the poet Lord Byron, as well as the mother of the Little House on the Prairie brood.

The song "Sweet Caroline" was a huge soft-rock hit for Neil Diamond, released in 1969, and inspired by the then eleven-year-old Caroline Kennedy (for whom he sang it at her fiftieth birthday party). Carolina is the more feminine (and place name) version; the Carolyn spelling takes it a bit down-market.

Famous People Named Caroline

Princess Caroline of Monaco
Caroline Kennedy, American author and attorney
Caroline Burckle, American swimmer
Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
Caroline Flack, English television presenter
Caroline Brasch Nielsen, Danish model
Caroline Keene, author of the Nancy Drew book series

Pop Culture References for the Name Caroline

Caroline Channing, character on '2 Broke Girls'
Caroline Forbes, character on 'The Vampire Diaries'
Caroline Bingley, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Caroline Ingalls (pronounced like Carolyn), character from the 'Little House' series
Sweet Caroline - song by Neil Diamond
Caroline Farrell- character on the tv series Dollhouse

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Caroline's International Variations

Karolina, Karola (Czech) Karoliina (Finnish) Line, Lina, Karoline, Linchen (German) Karolinka (Polish) Karila, Carolinda (Swedish)

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