first name
CAROLEE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 3,553 people named Carolee, 90.2% reported their origin as White, 3.3% as Black and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Carolee peaked in 1943, when 266 babies got the name.
At least 4,458 babies have been given the name since 1917. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Carolee by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #1,186. The largest share of babies named Carolee, 44.1%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Carolee is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Carolee has been most common in Utah (7.5×), Kansas (4.1×), and New York (2.9×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.64×).
1,897 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Carolee, most common first.
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