Carrol — boys' name

What the Data Says About Carrol

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,067 babies named Carrol between 1890 and 1989, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carrol currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1989. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 191 babies received it in a single year. Carrol is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,252 additional births since 1907.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carrol performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 1,705 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Carrol shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 636 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Carrol in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carrol 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 6,067 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.