Coraline
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KOR-uh-lyne
- Origin
- French
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #683 for girls
Coraline is a girls' name of French origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 683rd for girls in the US (414 babies).
What does Coraline mean?
French: French name related to Coralie; also a variant of Caroline
Made famous by the 2002 novella Coraline and its 2009 film; the author said the name began as a typo for Caroline.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Coraline a girl's or a boy's name?
Coraline is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 414 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Coraline in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Coraline, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Coraline in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Coraline in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 13 | #2,175 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 13 | #2,198 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
How popular is Coraline in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 683rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 414 about 1 in 3,900 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 17% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 414 girls in the US were named Coraline, making it the 683rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 647th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 527 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.
Half of all the girls named Coraline in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 461 girls in the US were given Coraline or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #631, up from #683 for this spelling alone.
- Coraline 414
- Koraline 47
Coraline in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 414 | #683 |
| 2024 | 392 | #718 |
| 2023 | 391 | #719 |
| 2022 | 430 | #678 |
| 2021 | 396 | #721 |
| 2020 | 448 | #647 |
| 2019 | 481 | #624 |
| 2018 | 512 | #594 |
| 2017 | 512 | #586 |
| 2016 | 502 | #599 |
| 2015 | 527 | #579 |
| 2014 | 453 | #630 |
| 2013 | 389 | #713 |
| 2012 | 326 | #826 |
| 2011 | 225 | #1,090 |
| 2010 | 239 | #1,044 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,792 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,069 |
Nicknames for Coraline
- Cora 461 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Coraline
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Esme, Maeve, Caoimhe, Elodie, Aoife, Maeva, Ivy-Rose, Orla, Fiadh, Sienna, Eden, Clementine
Other spellings of Coraline
Names related to Coraline
Caroline, Carolina, Karoline, Charline, Coralynn, Carlin, Coralyn, Caraline
More French names
Eleanor, Beau, Darcie, Darcy, Genevieve, Amy, Esmae, Arleth, Elle, Russell, Monty, Mallory, Percy, Lacey, Belle, Quincy
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Coraline: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/coraline, updated 20 October 2026.