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Carol
Pronounced /ˈkæ.ɹəl/
Rank in 2024
#2,645
Born in 2024
66
Peak year
1946 · #5
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 66 girls were named Carol, about 1 in every 24,442.
- It peaked in 1946 with 34,283 babies, ranked #5.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 816,838 girls have been named Carol since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Carol per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.1Greatest1901–27
- 14.2Silent1928–45
- 11.7Boomers1946–64
- 2.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 21,829 babies, 1.07 per 1,000. Silent: 294,103 babies, 14.23 per 1,000. Boomers: 419,509 babies, 11.71 per 1,000. Gen X: 63,642 babies, 2.49 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,629 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,263 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,279 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Shortened from Caroline. Associated by folk etymology with the English noun carol. ==== Proper noun ==== Carol (plural Carols) A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the middle of the 20th century. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations =====
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the middle of the 20th century.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈkæ.ɹəl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Carol, CC BY-SA 4.0.