Fewer than five US boys were named Carroll in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #164, reached in 1934. That year also had the most boys given the name: 874. For comparison, it was #8,150 in 2015 and #285 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Carroll in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #517, reached in 1943. That year also had the most girls given the name: 208. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #755 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Carroll in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 26 babies. In all, 41,347 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 9,117 babies named Carroll.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 51 US boys were named Carroll; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 11.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Carol (825,584 babies since 1880), Carole (110,952 babies since 1880), Carrol (10,319 babies since 1880) and Caroll (2,078 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Carrell, Karroll and Karrell are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.