Recorded 1890–2002 · United States
Carrol was most popular in 1943, when 352 American babies were given the name — ranking #705 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 10,319 people named Carrol.
Carrol first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1890, which makes it about 135 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 96 of the 136 years since. It was last recorded in 2002.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 10,319 American births named Carrol 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 3,724 are estimated to be alive today.
Carrol 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.
Across the whole record Carrol is a unisex name — 41.2% of the 10,319 Americans given it were girls and 58.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 1974 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls 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.
Roughly 3,724 Americans named Carrol are alive today — 36% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 68 and 83.
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.
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