Carole
Carole is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 35th, in 1942.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 19428,407 births
- Best rank
- #35in 1942
- Since 1901
- 110,677people given the name
The story in the numbers
110,677 girls have been named Carole in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1942, with 8,407 births — 0.62% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 8,407 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1940s alone account for 45%. It has spent 65 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Carole | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 18 | |
| 1910s | 492 | |
| 1920s | 2,004 | |
| 1930s | 26,768 | |
| 1940s | 50,303 | |
| 1950s | 16,535 | |
| 1960s | 10,564 | |
| 1970s | 2,209 | |
| 1980s | 941 | |
| 1990s | 522 | |
| 2000s | 210 | |
| 2010s | 95 | |
| 2020s | 16 |
In 1942, its biggest year
Carole was the 35th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1942 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Linda and Carol. See all of 1942.
Names that rose and fell with Carole
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Patpeak 1941
- Carollpeak 1946
- Kaypeak 1942
- Caroleepeak 1943
- Judithpeak 1943
- Ruthannpeak 1943
- Judiepeak 1943
- Marvapeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.