Carrol

Where Carrol comes from

The dictionaries list Carrol as a given name — a unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #994 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #423
    175 babies named Carrol — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #717.
  4. 1990
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.
Namesakes

No widely known Carrol turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.