How do you pronounce Caroline?

FutureMrs.Steen · June 2009

I love this name, but Dh thinks people will pronounce it wrong. Which way do you pronounce it?[Poll]

Rocknmama · June 2009

Carolyn = Care-oh-lyn

MEP14 · June 2009

my mom's name is Carolyn (pronounced Care-o-lyn). My sister's DD is named Sophie Caroline (Care-o-line). That is how I see it at least.

Tess12 · June 2009

Your husband is right: people will pronounce it wrong. If that is going to bother you, don't use it, but if you think "lyn" and "line" is sort of splitting hairs and you'll just correct people, then use it.

(It's my name, so I know what I'm talking about.)

kegallagh · June 2009

Okay, so I know that its Care-oh-line, but I have heard many people pronounce it Carolyn.

lovesazzie · June 2009

My sister's name is Caroline and some people pronounce it the Carolyn way, but I think it is just them being dumb. Most people realize they are separate names.

courtneyandandrew · June 2009

My sister's name is Caroline and she doesn't have many people that call her "Carolyn" instead...

SuwaneeGirl · June 2009

I'm a Carolyn. Now that I live back East, I am called Caroline all the time. I think it's a regional thing.

Either way--nice name choice!

berry25 · June 2009

Caroline and Carolyn are two separate names. Almost everyone knows that. Some people may ask you which name you are using just to be sure (if you just say it), but it will be rare that people will read "Caroline" written out and pronounce it Carolyn.

bklynbridecesh · June 2009

Maybe it's a New Yawk thing, but I don't pronounce the 1st syllable "care".

I'm a Carolyn: Cah-roh-lyn

Caroline: Cah-roh-line

DarcyLongfellow · June 2009

Caroline = care-oh-line

Carolyn = care-ah-lynn

Although, I will say that I have a cousin named Caroline, and she does occasionally have people mispronounce her name. Not all the time, but it is annoying when people do it. It's easy enough to correct them, though!

Funny story -- I was "friends" with this girl in college who was kind of obnoxious. She was from the NYC suburbs, and apparently the name Caroline is more common in the South? Anyway, she and I met someone whose name was Caroline, and I asked, to clarify, if the girl was Caroline or Carolyn. My friend told me very snottily that "of COURSE the girl's name was Carolyn -- the only person who pronounced it CaroLINE was a friend of hers from high school." I was like, uh, no, I actually know many people with that name -- including my cousin! It was just so funny to me that she thought Caroline was an unusual pronunciation -- to me it's much more common than Carolyn!