Carols — boys' name

What the Data Says About Carols

The Social Security Administration has registered 129 babies named Carols between 1967 and 1993, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carols currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 15 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carols performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 77 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Carols shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Carols in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carols 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 129 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.