Carola
Carola was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,129 among girls’ names; 1,170 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carola mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Carola is “a female given name, equivalent to English Carol”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carola?
#11,129 among girls’ names, 2025
Carola rose from #16,965 in 2015 to #11,129 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 5.0 per million.
29 babies in 1961, the peak
Carola peaked in 1961, when 29 girls were given it, #2,201 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,129 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,434 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,378 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,405 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,463 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,353 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,965 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,070 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,208 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,456 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #13,632 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,771 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,898 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,634 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,035 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,811 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,620 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,957 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,712 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,774 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,723 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,381 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,546 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,724 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,896 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,491 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,493 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,346 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,235 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,281 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,400 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,035 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,827 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,697 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,117 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,494 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,155 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,387 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,571 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,451 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,461 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,190 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,668 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,158 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,768 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,124 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,076 | 8.8 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,614 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,201 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,102 | 7.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,455 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,981 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,941 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,728 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,642 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,790 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,437 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,584 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,969 | 13.9 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,356 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,022 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,376 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,648 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,816 | 15.9 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,594 | 20.7 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,301 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,720 | 8.6 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,683 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,554 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,904 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,949 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,956 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,332 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,049 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,855 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,766 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,905 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,663 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,264 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,873 | 8.9 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,470 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,887 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,723 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,803 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,185 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,379 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,630 | 10.8 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,653 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,609 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,930 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,115 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,577 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,745 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,407 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,144 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,689 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,678 | 10.8 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,236 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,186 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,795 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,897 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,119 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,983 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,686 | 21.8 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,973 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,638 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,740 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,583 | 21.3 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,630 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,073 | 40.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Carola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Carola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Carola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carola, and how old are they?
An estimated 672 Americans named Carola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 40 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,052 people named Carola (2,049 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 705 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 435,835 babies since 1880, Carola is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 873 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Carola
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Jeannetta | 1,510 | |
| Marguerita | 1,308 | |
| Treva | 9,675 | |
| Elba | 3,706 | |
| Freida | 10,794 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Carola and names like it
- Compare Carola and CarlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCarola peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carola since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Carola: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Carola.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carola alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.