girls:
6k births since 1970
#2149 (62nd percentile)
overall:
6k births since 1970
#3507 (55th percentile)
The name Coraline is the #3,507 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,974 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 54.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,149 (62.4% percentile) for all time with 5,974 births since 1970.
Coraline first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for girls in 1970). Birth data for Coraline is available in 19 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Coraline reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 47.8% percentile (ranked #502) with 270 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 275 births per million (ranked 46.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Coraline ranks #586 for girls (38.2% percentile) with 221 births per million, which is 80.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Coraline".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Coraline. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.0% confident that Coraline is pronounced as KAW-ruh-LAIN, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAW-ruh-lain, at 31.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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