# Carrol (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/carrol/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,319 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,067 / 4,252 (41% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 10 | 5,643 |
| 1977 | 12 | 5,252 |
| 1978 | 10 | 6,014 |
| 1979 | 7 | 8,159 |
| 1980 | 6 | 9,248 |
| 1981 | 14 | 5,005 |
| 1982 | 6 | 9,389 |
| 1983 | 8 | 7,406 |
| 1985 | 7 | 8,471 |
| 1988 | 6 | 10,563 |
| 1989 | 7 | 9,831 |
| 1990 | 11 | 7,382 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,487 |
| 1998 | 5 | 14,531 |
| 2002 | 5 | 15,877 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | 3,670 |
| 1973 | 6 | 4,577 |
| 1974 | 15 | 2,564 |
| 1975 | 14 | 2,775 |
| 1976 | 16 | 2,621 |
| 1977 | 9 | 3,881 |
| 1978 | 8 | 4,206 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,455 |
| 1980 | 7 | 5,008 |
| 1981 | 7 | 5,020 |
| 1982 | 10 | 3,999 |
| 1983 | 8 | 4,565 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,207 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,443 |
| 1989 | 8 | 5,709 |

## People named Carrol

- J. Carrol Naish, American actor (1896-1973)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.