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Karole

The girl's name Karole has been in the national records since 1932, with 947 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 700 Karoles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Karole

By the numbers

Total US births
947
Estimated living today
700
Median age today
65
Peak year
1945
Best rank
1,356th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1932

How old the living Karoles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 947 babies given the name since 1932, about 700 are alive — 73 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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 Karoles

People named Karole with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Karole is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1945

The most popular girls’ names the year Karole peaked:

All the names of 1945

Karole elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Karole 170 1,218th
Italy girls Karole 161

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.

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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.