Carolina
kah-roh-LEE-nah
A graceful feminine form connected to the name Charles, often understood as “free woman” or “womanly.”
Meaning
The excerpts link Carolina with the same name-family as Caroline/Charles and gloss it simply as “man,” reflecting the older Germanic root behind Charles. In standard etymology, Carolina is the feminine form of Carolus/Charles, ultimately from a Germanic word associated with “free man,” so the name came to mean a womanly or feminine form of Charles. The books also show it as one of the classic eighteenth-century feminine names in English usage.
Origin
ItalianLatinGermanicfeminine
Fun fact
One excerpt groups Carolina with other fashionable classical names like Maria, Louisa, and Amelia, and even mentions Goldsmith’s satirical ‘Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs.’