Meaning not yet researched.
Karol: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 45 in 2025. Its best rank was #493 in 1944.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #493 in 1944; #3,426 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Karol in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,426 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1944, at #493.
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Karol: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 45 girls in 2025. Peak: #493 in 1944 · most girls in one year: 316 (2005).
In 2025, 45 US girls were named Karol, making it the 3,426th most common girls’ name of the year, up 297 places from #3,723 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 41 girls named Karol in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #493, reached in 1944. The most girls given the name in a single year was 316, in 2005. For comparison, it was #2,700 in 2015 and #597 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Karol in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,206, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 132. For comparison, it was #5,175 in 2015 and #3,183 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Karol in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 11,131 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,295 babies named Karol.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 508 US girls were named Karol; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 72. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,717 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Charles (2,447,135 babies since 1880), Carl (508,017 babies since 1880), Carlos (309,076 babies since 1880) and Karl (101,751 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kariel and Karell 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kariel (118), Karell (109).
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 Karol in the open dataset we use.
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 | 45 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,723 | — | — |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,800 | 6 | #11,535 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,138 | 10 | #7,865 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,946 | 11 | #7,259 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,469 | 5 | #13,142 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,535 | 8 | #9,230 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,108 | 14 | #6,190 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,620 | 19 | #5,045 |
| 2015 | 66 | #2,700 | 18 | #5,175 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,381 | 27 | #3,846 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,674 | 24 | #4,127 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,635 | 31 | #3,489 |
| 2011 | 100 | #1,979 | 37 | #3,083 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,416 | 30 | #3,587 |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,096 | 39 | #3,020 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,258 | 50 | #2,529 |
| 2007 | 149 | #1,543 | 63 | #2,150 |
| 2006 | 137 | #1,578 | 72 | #1,885 |
| 2005 | 316 | #818 | 132 | #1,206 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,765 | 18 | #4,692 |
| 2003 | 34 | #3,986 | 7 | #9,164 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,266 | 15 | #5,029 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,448 | 14 | #5,279 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,962 | 12 | #5,745 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,961 | 15 | #4,653 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,326 | 13 | #5,030 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,756 | 9 | #6,369 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,872 | 17 | #3,928 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,453 | 12 | #4,961 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,565 | 12 | #4,961 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,463 | 17 | #3,746 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,144 | 13 | #4,459 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,186 | 8 | #6,235 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,824 | 15 | #3,874 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,730 | 11 | #4,669 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,086 | 10 | #4,607 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,569 | 7 | #5,789 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,955 | 8 | #4,931 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,793 | 8 | #4,772 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,747 | 7 | #5,203 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,090 | 10 | #4,093 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,671 | 5 | #6,761 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,888 | 13 | #3,260 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,536 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,947 | — | — |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,380 | — | — |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,674 | 5 | #5,477 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,660 | — | — |
| 1971 | 83 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1970 | 99 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1969 | 110 | #1,044 | 5 | #4,715 |
| 1968 | 126 | #921 | — | — |
| 1967 | 139 | #859 | 5 | #4,261 |
| 1966 | 157 | #787 | 5 | #4,246 |
| 1965 | 181 | #741 | — | — |
| 1964 | 220 | #696 | 5 | #4,336 |
| 1963 | 190 | #748 | — | — |
| 1962 | 203 | #724 | 6 | #3,837 |
| 1961 | 226 | #699 | 6 | #3,844 |
| 1960 | 224 | #679 | — | — |
| 1959 | 253 | #626 | 5 | #4,286 |
| 1958 | 256 | #617 | 7 | #3,420 |
| 1957 | 251 | #622 | 6 | #3,773 |
| 1956 | 203 | #676 | 10 | #2,713 |
| 1955 | 214 | #634 | 9 | #2,872 |
| 1954 | 207 | #634 | 7 | #3,306 |
| 1953 | 190 | #651 | 8 | #3,039 |
| 1952 | 236 | #565 | 12 | #2,321 |
| 1951 | 205 | #600 | 9 | #2,771 |
| 1950 | 200 | #597 | 7 | #3,183 |
| 1949 | 184 | #609 | 6 | #3,516 |
| 1948 | 232 | #541 | 7 | #3,168 |
| 1947 | 250 | #529 | 17 | #1,883 |
| 1946 | 216 | #538 | 10 | #2,480 |
| 1945 | 211 | #504 | 12 | #2,064 |
| 1944 | 214 | #493 | 14 | #1,928 |
| 1943 | 184 | #557 | 13 | #2,118 |
| 1942 | 172 | #564 | 12 | #2,207 |
| 1941 | 151 | #568 | 13 | #2,048 |
| 1940 | 137 | #593 | 13 | #2,038 |
| 1939 | 112 | #648 | 17 | #1,680 |
| 1938 | 104 | #675 | 13 | #2,040 |
| 1937 | 86 | #728 | 11 | #2,273 |
| 1936 | 79 | #760 | 10 | #2,373 |
| 1935 | 49 | #988 | 16 | #1,795 |
| 1934 | 52 | #960 | 11 | #2,337 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,151 | 9 | #2,640 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,787 | 10 | #2,546 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,364 | 9 | #2,775 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,155 | 18 | #1,783 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,832 | 9 | #2,857 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,049 | 10 | #2,754 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,425 | 10 | #2,808 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,078 | 9 | #3,024 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,221 | 13 | #2,371 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,217 | 12 | #2,556 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,675 | 12 | #2,530 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,398 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,847 | 17 | #2,024 |
| 1920 | — | — | 13 | #2,394 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,592 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,211 | 15 | #2,118 |
| 1917 | — | — | 20 | #1,672 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,731 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,837 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,365 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,878 |
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).