Karole
Karole was last recorded in 2006, when 5 babies were given it; 947 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karole by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karole?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,573, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1945, the peak
Karole peaked in 1945, when 35 girls were given it, #1,363 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 5 | #18,573 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,305 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,213 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,059 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,334 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,002 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,744 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,445 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,256 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,152 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #10,922 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,030 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,943 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,776 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,367 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,340 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,185 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,407 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,782 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,050 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,908 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,190 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,429 | 14.8 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,134 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,130 | 16.9 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,451 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,960 | 17.8 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,093 | 15.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,609 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,262 | 12.8 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,414 | 11.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,380 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,870 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,556 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,553 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,579 | 5.8 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,456 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,432 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,835 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,859 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,218 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,314 | 10.7 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,791 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,363 | 26.8 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,503 | 22.6 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,544 | 21.5 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,492 | 23.0 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,370 | 26.5 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,566 | 21.9 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,255 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,171 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,876 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,206 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,042 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,364 | 12.4 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,746 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Karole a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Karole has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Karole: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karole, and how old are they?
An estimated 682 Americans named Karole and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 59 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 861 people named Karole (858 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 762 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
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 Karole?
Karole is a less common spelling of Carole: SSA has recorded 947 Karole and 110,952 Carole since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 258,713 babies since 1880, Karole is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 713 babies recorded by SSA was a Karole (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 Karole
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 Karole and names like it
- Compare Karole and CaroleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sKarole peaked in 1945.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Karole since 1910.
- The top names of 1945The year the most babies were named Karole.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Karole alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.