Carol Girl
How popular is Carol?
#2,239 girl name in 2025
82 baby girls were named Carol in the US in 2025, making it the 2239th most popular girl name.
Carol popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #2,239 for girls (▲ 398 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 82 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-31% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,770 in 2015, #1,908 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1946 (34,284 girls) |
| Highest rank | #4 in 1941 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Carol counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Carol family of names ranked #1,292 for girls in 2025 (#1,510 the year before), with 136 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Carol is most popular
Babies named Carol per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Indiana: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 girls)
Carol by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 120 | #439 |
| 1890s | 394 | #361 |
| 1900s | 964 | #294 |
| 1910s | 5,585 | #196 |
| 1920s | 22,978 | #63 |
| 1930s | 117,731 | #6 |
| 1940s | 292,333 | #4 |
| 1950s | 222,656 | #9 |
| 1960s | 112,333 | #23 |
| 1970s | 23,477 | #71 |
| 1980s | 8,808 | #232 |
| 1990s | 4,952 | #349 |
| 2000s | 2,727 | #718 |
| 2010s | 1,379 | #1,250 |
| 2020s | 491 | #1,908 |
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Questions
- Is Carol a boy or girl name?
- Carol is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Carol were girls.
- How popular is the name Carol?
- 82 baby girls were named Carol in the US in 2025, making it the 2239th most popular girl name.
- When was Carol most popular?
- Carol peaked in 1946, when 34,284 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #4 in 1941.
- How many people are named Carol?
- 825,584 babies have been named Carol in the US since 1880. We estimate about 537,443 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 74.
- Where is Carol most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Carol was most common in Texas, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.