Carrol
Carrol was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 10,319 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,490 Americans named Carrol and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 83.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Carrol by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Carrol mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Carrol is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Carrol?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,702, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
352 babies in 1943, the peak
Carrol peaked in 1943, when 352 babies were given it (152 boys, #505 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #15,871 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,524 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,480 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,376 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,825 | 8 | #5,702 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,558 | 5 | #7,436 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,200 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,468 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,404 | 8 | #4,563 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,387 | 10 | #3,997 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 14 | #5,004 | 7 | #5,018 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,246 | 7 | #5,006 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,157 | 6 | #5,453 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,013 | 8 | #4,204 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,251 | 9 | #3,879 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,641 | 16 | #2,620 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,028 | 14 | #2,773 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,058 | 15 | #2,562 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,498 | 6 | #4,575 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,737 | 8 | #3,668 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,967 | 16 | #2,377 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,785 | 13 | #2,639 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,527 | 23 | #1,737 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,436 | 19 | #1,846 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,171 | 16 | #1,982 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,679 | 14 | #2,142 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,891 | 26 | #1,518 |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,979 | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,816 | 24 | #1,631 |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,526 | 17 | #1,977 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,627 | 24 | #1,643 |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,764 | 32 | #1,404 |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,478 | 30 | #1,442 |
| 1958 | 74 | #1,232 | 31 | #1,400 |
| 1957 | 57 | #1,397 | 34 | #1,347 |
| 1956 | 58 | #1,365 | 31 | #1,388 |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,309 | 32 | #1,340 |
| 1954 | 70 | #1,197 | 45 | #1,112 |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,225 | 56 | #959 |
| 1952 | 73 | #1,099 | 63 | #884 |
| 1951 | 82 | #1,027 | 64 | #873 |
| 1950 | 85 | #987 | 95 | #704 |
| 1949 | 100 | #880 | 75 | #792 |
| 1948 | 138 | #714 | 87 | #716 |
| 1947 | 168 | #639 | 123 | #614 |
| 1946 | 172 | #602 | 89 | #685 |
| 1945 | 173 | #559 | 108 | #581 |
| 1944 | 170 | #558 | 109 | #589 |
| 1943 | 200 | #533 | 152 | #505 |
| 1942 | 140 | #635 | 127 | #544 |
| 1941 | 141 | #592 | 164 | #462 |
| 1940 | 154 | #558 | 170 | #443 |
| 1939 | 131 | #584 | 174 | #430 |
| 1938 | 140 | #580 | 170 | #440 |
| 1937 | 133 | #583 | 157 | #446 |
| 1936 | 96 | #679 | 170 | #429 |
| 1935 | 87 | #721 | 169 | #432 |
| 1934 | 91 | #700 | 175 | #423 |
| 1933 | 67 | #815 | 165 | #429 |
| 1932 | 68 | #831 | 160 | #445 |
| 1931 | 60 | #888 | 174 | #431 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,087 | 191 | #426 |
| 1929 | 64 | #897 | 184 | #436 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,293 | 160 | #481 |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,163 | 154 | #489 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,266 | 122 | #552 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,301 | 150 | #495 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,190 | 147 | #519 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,214 | 127 | #546 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,738 | 144 | #513 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,057 | 143 | #519 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,444 | 134 | #527 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,655 | 118 | #551 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,814 | 113 | #572 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,115 | 109 | #564 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,270 | 115 | #534 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,723 | 97 | #578 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,914 | 69 | #606 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,256 | 48 | #642 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,865 | 36 | #716 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,237 | 7 | #1,407 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,436 | 13 | #877 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,997 | 12 | #850 |
| 1908 | under 5 | 15 | #690 | |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,120 | 13 | #743 |
| 1906 | under 5 | 13 | #680 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 7 | #1,015 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 8 | #855 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 9 | #804 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 6 | #969 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 6 | #1,022 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 7 | #908 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 5 | #1,102 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 5 | #1,105 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 6 | #975 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 5 | #1,027 |
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 Carrol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 10,319 Americans recorded as Carrol, 41% are girls and 59% boys. Girls have outnumbered boys among babies named Carrol every year since 1951.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Carrol: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Carrol, and how old are they?
3,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 34% of the 10,319 Americans ever recorded as Carrol. The median Carrol alive today is 77 years old; half are between 67 and 83.
The 2020 Census counted 4,984 people named Carrol (3,231 women and girls, 1,753 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,250 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,670 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 456 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 103 |
| 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).
Where are babies named Carrol born?
The states with the most babies named Carrol are Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 920 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Oklahoma | 392 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Louisiana | 379 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 372 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Arkansas | 339 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Missouri | 333 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 296 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 207 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 200 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 184 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Carrol is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Carrol is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Carrol with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 560,806 babies since 1880, Carrol is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 187 babies recorded by SSA was a Carrol (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 Carrol
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 Carrol and names like it
- Compare Carrol and CarlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sCarrol peaked in 1943.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Carrol since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Carrol: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Carrol.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Carrol alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.