Caroll — unisex name

What the Data Says About Caroll

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,302 babies named Caroll between 1918 and 2005, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caroll currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 65 babies received it in a single year. Caroll is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 776 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caroll performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 481 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Caroll shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 67 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Caroll in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caroll 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 1,302 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.