# Karol (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/karol/  
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 | 11,131 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,437 / 9,694 (87% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 607, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 100 | 1,979 |
| 2012 | 132 | 1,635 |
| 2013 | 66 | 2,674 |
| 2014 | 77 | 2,381 |
| 2015 | 66 | 2,700 |
| 2016 | 43 | 3,620 |
| 2017 | 36 | 4,108 |
| 2018 | 44 | 3,535 |
| 2019 | 72 | 2,469 |
| 2020 | 55 | 2,946 |
| 2021 | 52 | 3,138 |
| 2022 | 59 | 2,878 |
| 2023 | 61 | 2,800 |
| 2024 | 41 | 3,723 |
| 2025 | 45 | 3,426 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 50 | 2,529 |
| 2009 | 39 | 3,020 |
| 2010 | 30 | 3,587 |
| 2011 | 37 | 3,083 |
| 2012 | 31 | 3,489 |
| 2013 | 24 | 4,127 |
| 2014 | 27 | 3,846 |
| 2015 | 18 | 5,175 |
| 2016 | 19 | 5,045 |
| 2017 | 14 | 6,190 |
| 2018 | 8 | 9,230 |
| 2019 | 5 | 13,142 |
| 2020 | 11 | 7,259 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,865 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,535 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 63 | 557 |
| 2012 | 49 | 682 |
| 2013 | 36 | 837 |
| 2014 | 29 | 988 |
| 2015 | 37 | 833 |
| 2016 | 37 | 858 |
| 2017 | 32 | 943 |
| 2018 | 27 | 1,040 |
| 2019 | 29 | 974 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,230 |
| 2021 | 12 | 1,860 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2,529 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## People named Karol

- Karol Mets, Estonian footballer (born 1993)
- Karol J. Bobko, American astronaut (1937–2023)
- Karol Divín, Czechoslovak figure skater (1936–2022)
- Karol Rathaus, German-Austrian composer (1895-1954)
- Karol Kennedy, American pair skater (1932–2004)
- Karol Cariola, Chilean politician
- Karol Sidor, Czechoslovak diplomat and politician (1901-1953)
- Karol Sidon, Czech-Jewish writer, playwriter and rabbi
- Karol Grossmann, cinematographer
- Karol Kmetko, Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Slovak nation politician
- Karol Šmidke, Czechoslovak member of Slovak National Council, member of Czechoslovak national parliament
- Karol Józef Sapieha

## 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.