Caroll
Recorded 1912–2005 · United States
Caroll was most popular in 1946, when 86 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,545 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,078 people named Caroll.
Caroll over time
How old is the name Caroll?
Caroll first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 73 of the 114 years since. It was last recorded in 2005.
How many people are named Caroll?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,078 American births named Caroll between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,074 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Caroll in 2025?
Caroll was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Caroll a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Caroll is a unisex name — 62.7% of the 2,078 Americans given it were girls and 37.3% were boys. It changed hands: since 1957 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Caroll?
Roughly 1,074 Americans named Caroll are alive today — 52% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 74 years old, and half are between 65 and 81.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Caroll is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org