Coraline is a delicate, storybook name that blends the sound of coral — the jewel of the sea — with the classic Caroline. Though it has older roots, it is best known today from Neil Gaiman's 2002 novel Coraline and its acclaimed animated film.
For families who love a name with a story, Coraline is both distinctive and easy to love.
Coraline does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Coraline reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.