How rare is the name Carrol?

4,984 people in the United States have the first name Carrol, about 1 in 60,600. It ranks #3,920 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 2 others.

first name

CARROL

#3,920

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,984
About
1 in 60,600
This common or more
83.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,984 people named Carrol, 80.4% reported their origin as White, 12.8% as Black and 3% as two or more races. 64.8% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Carrol peaked in 1943, when 352 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18902002
Peak year
1943
Births that year
352
In 2002
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
used for both

At least 10,319 babies have been given the name since 1890. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Carrol by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1930s, when it ranked #737. The largest share of babies named Carrol, 47.2%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1890s#2,49834
1900s#1,99794
1910s#1,167855
1920s#9451,842
1930s#7372,624
1940s#8292,760
1950s#1,5561,154
1960s#2,418569
1970s#4,582256
1980s#9,738105
1990s#26,51121
2000s#47,6555
Before 19010.3%
Greatest Generation 1901–2722.8%
Silent Generation 1928–4547.2%
Baby boom 1946–6423.6%
Generation X 1965–804.9%
Millennials 1981–961%
Generation Z 1997–120.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Carrol is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Carrol has been most common in Arkansas (6×), Oklahoma (5.5×), and Louisiana (4×), and least common in New York (0.1×).

5,198 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Carrol

2 other first names also have 4,984 people.

#3,920 Brigette · 4,984#3,920 Corrina · 4,984

Either side of Carrol

#3,919 Serge · 4,986#3,920 Brigette · 4,984#3,920 Corrina · 4,984#3,923 Dayanara · 4,983

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Carrol, most common first.

#68 Carol · 614,466#1,787 Carroll · 16,718#34,154 Carrel · 240#51,658 Carrole · 112#52,900 Carryl · 104

Also a last name

As a last name, Carrol ranks #16,867 of 156,621, with 1,648 people. See Carrol as a last name

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