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NAMES LIKE CAROL
Same rise and fall as Carol, around the same years.
WHERE CAROL IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Carol ranked highest in Texas (#3,657) and lowest in Florida (#3,766). 49 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Carol name popularity
Carol has been given to 825,584 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 1946, when 34,458 babies got the name, and its best rank was #13 in 1941.
In 2025, 82 babies were named Carol (#4,052 in the country), 99.7% below the peak. That is down 31% from 2015.
Almost every Carol is a girl.
An estimated 514K people named Carol are alive in the US today, with a median age of 74.
It was a top-100 name in 39 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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