Carroll — boys' name

What the Data Says About Carroll

The Social Security Administration has registered 35,431 babies named Carroll between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Carroll currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1934, when 874 babies received it in a single year. Carroll is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,916 additional births since 1896.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Carroll performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 7,963 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Carroll shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 2,662 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Virginia and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Carroll in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Carroll 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 35,431 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.