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I'd never given Caroline much thought either; the only one I knew well wasn't particularly appealing, and then it was just 18th-century royalty. I was planning to name my daughter Lucy, a name I've always loved. But when she was born, somehow she didn't look like a Lucy at all. So I took my trusty Names book and worked my way down the alphabet, finding names I liked, and seeing if they suited her. The first one that did, was Caroline. So I used it, and it worked extremely well. Caroline clearly has hidden depths.

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There were so many Carol people in the 1950s that Caroline might have suffered a bit from guilt by association. But it's a long time ago and that should be all over, if it ever happened.