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Coraline

Pronounced K AO1 R AH0 L AY2 N (ARPABET)

  • 3 syllables
  • Peaked 2015
  • 55 years in use
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How popular is Coraline?

Coraline is a girls' name, and first appears in 1970. It has been given to 6,370 children — the 1,829th most common girls' name on record.

It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2015, when 527 children were given it.

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Characteristics

  • 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
Pronunciations:
K AO1 R AH0 L AY2 N
Stress pattern:
102
Syllables:
3

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Names like Coraline

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Sibling names for Coraline

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

Frequently asked questions

How popular is the name Coraline?
Coraline ranks 1,829th among girls' names in US records, with 6,370 births since 1970. Over the past decade it accounts for 4,589.
Is Coraline a unisex name?
No. Coraline is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Coraline most popular?
2015, when 527 children were given the name. It has been in use for 55 years and is still recorded as of 2024.