Karrol
Karrol was last recorded in 1960, when 5 babies were given it; 59 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Karrol by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Karrol?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,807, in 1960; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1939, the peak
Karrol peaked in 1939, when 13 babies were given it (6 girls, #4,017 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | #6,807 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,709 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,351 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,697 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,280 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,287 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,978 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,675 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,017 | 7 | #2,984 |
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 Karrol a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 59 Americans recorded as Karrol, 88% are girls and 12% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Karrol: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Karrol, and how old are they?
An estimated 33 Americans named Karrol and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 138 people named Karrol (110 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 41 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times 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 Karrol?
Karrol is a less common spelling of Carol: SSA has recorded 59 Karrol and 825,584 Carol since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 840,867 babies since 1880, Karrol is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 138 babies recorded by SSA was a Karrol (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.
More about Karrol and names like it
- Compare Karrol and CarolBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sKarrol peaked in 1939.
- The top names of 1939The year the most babies were named Karrol.
- Names starting with KMost given first.