Coraline

Where Coraline comes from

An elaborate form of Coralie, itself derived from coral. Name of a character in Adolphe Adam's opera Le toréador.
— Wiktionary's entry for Coraline
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #7,070 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Coraline Vitalis born
    French fencer
  3. 2000
    Coraline Ada Ehmke born
    software developer and open source community activist
  4. 2015
    Peak, #579
    527 babies named Coraline — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Coraline Ada Ehmke · software developer and open source community activist, born 2000
  • Coraline Vitalis · French fencer, born 1995
  • Coraline Hugue · French cross-country skier, born 1984

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.