Carole — girls' name

What the Data Says About Carole

The Social Security Administration has registered 110,677 babies named Carole between 1901 and 2023, spanning 123 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Carole currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1942, when 8,407 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carole performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 50,303 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Carole shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12,859 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Carole in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carole in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 110,677 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.