Carolyn
Just 57 women in Poland carry Carolyn, so meeting one would stick with you. It comes from Latin and means "free woman", and no girl has been given it since 2000.
Carolyn Pronunciation
Carolyn is pronounced tsah-RO-lihn (/t͡saˈrɔlɨn/).
What Carolyn means
Where Carolyn comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Carolyn descends from the Latin Carolus, the form that Latin scribes fixed on the name Charles. Under that Latin dress lies an older root that spoke of a free man. Its feminine grew into Caroline in English, and Carolyn stands among the spellings that branched off. The meaning riding with it is direct: free woman.
English took the name up warmly. In the United States, Carolyn ranked among the more common girls' names in the 1930s and 1940s. Carolyn Keene is the pen name behind the Nancy Drew mysteries, a byline shared by ghostwriters since 1930. The name has cooled since, without disappearing.
On an official form at the urząd, Carolyn arrives as an English borrowing, traced back through Caroline to Carolus. The sense stays fixed: free woman.
How many people are named Carolyn
1 in 395506 women in Poland is named Carolyn. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4909 among female names.
Carolyn as a middle name
Carolyn is a first name for 57 women in Poland and a middle name for another 27, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1368th, between Carola (27) and Ceren (27).
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#1366 Beyza27
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#1367 Carola27
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#1368 Carolyn27
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#1369 Ceren27
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#1370 Christin27