Carolyn is a 20th-century American variant of Caroline — from Carolus / Charles, Old Germanic karl (free man). **A top-30 US baby name from 1939 to 1962**. **Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (1966-1999)** — American Calvin Klein publicist; **wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.; her wedding-day Narciso Rodriguez slip dress became the most copied bridal gown of the 1990s**. **Died in the plane crash off Martha's Vineyard with her husband and sister, July 16, 1999**. **Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966)** — American chemist; **2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for bioorthogonal chemistry, the second-ever American woman to win the Chemistry Nobel**. **Carolyn Hax** — Washington Post advice columnist since 1997. **Carolyn Maloney** — US Congresswoman from New York for 30 years.
Subject of countless 1999 retrospectives.
Carolyn reduces to six — the number of free woman.