Carolee

Where Carolee comes from

Carolee hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Carolee Schneemann born
    American visual experimental artist
  3. 1943
    Peak, #454
    266 babies named Carolee — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #680.
  5. 1962
    Carolee Carmello born
    American actress and singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Carolee Schneemann · American visual experimental artist, 1939–2019
  • Carolee Carmello · American actress and singer, born 1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.