girls:
5.9k births since 1896
#2161 (62nd percentile)
boys:
35.4k births since 1880
#604 (87th percentile)
overall:
41.3k births since 1880
#1216 (84th percentile)
The name Carroll is the #1,216 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,347 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #604 (86.8% percentile) for all time with 35,431 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,161 (62.2% percentile) for all time with 5,916 births since 1896.
Carroll has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1896 for girls). Birth data for Carroll is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 100 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Carroll has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Carroll were boys.
For boys, Carroll reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 69.5% percentile (ranked #162) with 823 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 823 births per million (ranked 69.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Carroll ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Carroll reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 30.2% percentile (ranked #438) with 145 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 145 births per million (ranked 30.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Carroll".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Carol. View all variations of Carol.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Carroll", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 28 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Carol" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Carol..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Carroll. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.0% confident that Carroll is pronounced as KA-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-ruhl, at 44.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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