Meaning not yet researched.
Carole: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #35 in 1942.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #35 in 1942; #10,258 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Carole in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,258 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1942, at #35.
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Carole: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #35 in 1942 · most girls in one year: 8,407 (1942).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Carole, making it the 10,258th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #35, reached in 1942. That year also had the most girls given the name: 8,407. For comparison, it was #10,287 in 2015 and #140 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carole in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 5 babies. In all, 110,952 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 50,464 babies named Carole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 65 US girls were named Carole; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carol (825,584 babies since 1880), Carla (150,815 babies since 1880), Karla (91,895 babies since 1880) and Carroll (41,347 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Karyle, Carrolle and Carelle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Portuguese. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Karyle (36), Carrolle (10), Carelle (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Carole in the open dataset we use.
Carole is listed as a nickname for Carol, Carolann, Caroline.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,258 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,480 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,401 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,243 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,969 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,866 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,534 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,287 | — | — |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,678 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,689 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,346 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,287 | — | — |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,577 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,510 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,819 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,905 | — | — |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,217 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,848 | — | — |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,019 | — | — |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,814 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,202 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,816 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,905 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,782 | — | — |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 1991 | 81 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1988 | 87 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1987 | 90 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1986 | 70 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1985 | 94 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1984 | 95 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1983 | 108 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1982 | 100 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1981 | 118 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1980 | 114 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1979 | 128 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1978 | 133 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1977 | 150 | #932 | — | — |
| 1976 | 140 | #927 | — | — |
| 1975 | 189 | #754 | — | — |
| 1974 | 192 | #742 | — | — |
| 1973 | 219 | #684 | — | — |
| 1972 | 289 | #570 | — | — |
| 1971 | 347 | #528 | — | — |
| 1970 | 422 | #480 | — | — |
| 1969 | 532 | #414 | — | — |
| 1968 | 612 | #363 | — | — |
| 1967 | 703 | #329 | — | — |
| 1966 | 756 | #322 | — | — |
| 1965 | 897 | #299 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,164 | #263 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,152 | #260 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,382 | #232 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,679 | #205 | 7 | #3,400 |
| 1960 | 1,689 | #203 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,416 | #223 | — | — |
| 1958 | 1,510 | #211 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,610 | #207 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,418 | #214 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,426 | #213 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,507 | #203 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,635 | #188 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,836 | #170 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,959 | #159 | — | — |
| 1950 | 2,218 | #140 | — | — |
| 1949 | 2,764 | #118 | — | — |
| 1948 | 3,313 | #106 | 7 | #3,042 |
| 1947 | 3,826 | #102 | 7 | #3,124 |
| 1946 | 4,621 | #72 | 14 | #1,961 |
| 1945 | 4,842 | #51 | 11 | #2,149 |
| 1944 | 6,268 | #43 | 17 | #1,688 |
| 1943 | 6,506 | #42 | 28 | #1,315 |
| 1942 | 8,407 | #35 | 33 | #1,217 |
| 1941 | 4,966 | #48 | 21 | #1,493 |
| 1940 | 4,790 | #49 | 23 | #1,406 |
| 1939 | 4,679 | #47 | 13 | #1,970 |
| 1938 | 4,616 | #46 | 12 | #2,095 |
| 1937 | 4,198 | #56 | 19 | #1,584 |
| 1936 | 3,199 | #73 | 11 | #2,199 |
| 1935 | 2,680 | #93 | 14 | #1,944 |
| 1934 | 2,655 | #89 | 9 | #2,589 |
| 1933 | 2,149 | #107 | 12 | #2,114 |
| 1932 | 1,317 | #151 | 6 | #3,421 |
| 1931 | 850 | #212 | — | — |
| 1930 | 425 | #321 | — | — |
| 1929 | 326 | #373 | — | — |
| 1928 | 250 | #428 | — | — |
| 1927 | 213 | #477 | — | — |
| 1926 | 204 | #488 | — | — |
| 1925 | 218 | #466 | — | — |
| 1924 | 204 | #487 | — | — |
| 1923 | 184 | #518 | — | — |
| 1922 | 159 | #569 | — | — |
| 1921 | 143 | #608 | — | — |
| 1920 | 103 | #715 | — | — |
| 1919 | 82 | #779 | — | — |
| 1918 | 92 | #743 | — | — |
| 1917 | 82 | #763 | — | — |
| 1916 | 67 | #825 | — | — |
| 1915 | 50 | #935 | — | — |
| 1914 | 44 | #879 | — | — |
| 1913 | 31 | #962 | — | — |
| 1912 | 25 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,716 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).