Karol
Karol is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 493rd, in 1944.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 400.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2005316 births
- Best rank
- #493in 1944
- Since 1918
- 11,085people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,648 girls have been named Karol in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 316 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1950s alone account for 23%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,437 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Karol | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 65 | |
| 1930s | 569 | |
| 1940s | 1,951 | |
| 1950s | 2,215 | |
| 1960s | 1,776 | |
| 1970s | 488 | |
| 1980s | 239 | |
| 1990s | 350 | |
| 2000s | 1,009 | |
| 2010s | 714 | |
| 2020s | 267 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Karol was the 818th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Karol
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maryannepeak 1957
- Charolettepeak 1943
- Marleenpeak 1951
- Carolynnpeak 1942
- Sherlenepeak 1958
- Sandrapeak 1947
- Mariannpeak 1957
- Maureenpeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
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.