Carole

Where Carole comes from

Borrowed from French Carole.
— Wiktionary's entry for Carole
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1901
    First appearance
    #1,679 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1908
    Carole Lombard born
    American actress
  3. 1942
    Peak, #35
    8,407 babies named Carole — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1947
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #102.
  5. 1957
    Carole Bouquet born
    French actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French, variant of Carol
Namesakes
  • Carole Lombard · American actress, 1908–1942
  • Carole Bouquet · French actress, born 1957
  • Carole Landis · American actress, 1919–1948
  • Carole Pateman · British feminist, academic political theorist, born 1940
  • Carole Montillet · alpine skier, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.