Caroll
Caroll was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 2,078 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Caroll and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 64 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caroll by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Caroll?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,972, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
86 babies in 1946, the peak
Caroll peaked in 1946, when 86 babies were given it (65 girls, #1,050 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #16,972 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,109 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,023 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,437 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,284 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,283 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,452 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,698 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,828 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,296 | 5 | #5,722 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 12 | #4,891 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,993 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,542 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,149 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,171 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,601 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,214 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,814 | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,336 | 6 | #3,607 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,226 | 10 | #2,648 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,066 | 5 | #3,989 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,384 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,477 | 12 | #2,432 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,670 | 8 | #3,077 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,204 | 7 | #3,400 |
| 1960 | 17 | #2,998 | 6 | #3,712 |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,465 | 7 | #3,323 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,676 | 13 | #2,276 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,284 | 10 | #2,663 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,836 | 18 | #1,895 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,480 | 19 | #1,795 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,791 | 21 | #1,670 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,022 | 22 | #1,637 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,785 | 22 | #1,622 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,584 | 23 | #1,553 |
| 1950 | 34 | #1,604 | 16 | #1,888 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,377 | 19 | #1,711 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,549 | 9 | #2,631 |
| 1947 | 53 | #1,240 | 10 | #2,520 |
| 1946 | 65 | #1,050 | 21 | #1,562 |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,157 | 14 | #1,860 |
| 1944 | 49 | #1,116 | 15 | #1,821 |
| 1943 | 54 | #1,089 | 13 | #2,085 |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,092 | 15 | #1,876 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,208 | 19 | #1,593 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,118 | 23 | #1,407 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,478 | 26 | #1,300 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,130 | 12 | #2,096 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,222 | 17 | #1,702 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,449 | 21 | #1,472 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,515 | 18 | #1,664 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,416 | 13 | #2,033 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,790 | 16 | #1,779 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,048 | 22 | #1,515 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,445 | 19 | #1,646 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,568 | 16 | #1,900 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,174 | 22 | #1,568 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,812 | 12 | #2,411 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,724 | 15 | #2,128 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,616 | 15 | #2,092 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,147 | 12 | #2,454 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,186 | 9 | #3,053 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,071 | 6 | #3,875 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,068 | 11 | #2,649 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 12 | #2,512 | |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,019 | 10 | #2,800 |
| 1919 | under 5 | 10 | #2,700 | |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,552 | 9 | #2,912 |
| 1917 | under 5 | 10 | #2,574 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 15 | #1,970 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 12 | #2,200 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 5 | #3,327 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,604 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Caroll a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,078 Americans recorded as Caroll, 63% are girls and 37% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caroll: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caroll, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 49% of the 2,078 Americans ever recorded as Caroll. The median Caroll alive today is 74 years old; half are between 64 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 1,684 people named Caroll (1,300 women and girls, 384 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 262 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 557 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 173 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
How common is the spelling Caroll?
Caroll is a less common spelling of Carol: SSA has recorded 2,078 Caroll and 825,584 Carol since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 845,554 babies since 1880, Caroll is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 127 babies recorded by SSA was a Caroll (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Caroll
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Caroll and names like it
- Compare Caroll and CarolBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCaroll peaked in 1946.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caroll since 1910.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Caroll.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Caroll alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.