Carroll
About 41,347 American babies have been named Carroll since 1880, most of them around 1934. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 14,000 Carrolls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 72.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Carroll boys named Carroll
Girls and boys called Carroll
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 5,916 girls and 35,431 boys in all, and in 1998 the split was 12 to 15.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 117 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 41,347
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 72
- Peak year
- 1934
- Best rank
- 164th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5,916 / 35,431
How old the living Carrolls are
born that year still alive today
Of the 41,347 babies given the name since 1880, about 14,000 are alive — 33 in every hundred. Roughly 140 of them are children and 9,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1953 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Carrolls
- Carroll Baker (born 1931)American actress
- Carroll Shelby (1923–2012)American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur
- Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001)American actor
- Carroll Quigley (1910–1977)American historian
- Carroll Nye (1901–1974)actor
- James Carroll Beckwith (1852–1917)American painter
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. (1940–2005)American politician
- Carroll Ballard (born 1937)American film director
People named Carroll with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Carroll is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Carroll is most concentrated in Maine (6.9×), Maryland (4.5×), Vermont (4.5×), Arkansas (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1934
The most popular boys’ names the year Carroll peaked:
Carroll elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Carroll | 3 | 324th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Carroll against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.