Baby name
FADING
🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 Carola
/kah · ROH · lah/
Meaning
“Free man”
Germanic diminutive of Charles meaning free man, popular in Scandinavian and Central European naming traditions.
Nicknames
carole · lola · rola
Vibe
strongwarm
How it ages.
Carola is steadily declining in Germanic countries after peak popularity in the 1950s-1970s.
The cultural moment.
Northern Europe declining; Germany and Scandinavia show shift toward shorter modern forms.