Carol
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#2,242
up +400 places
2025 births
82
up +16 births
All-time births
816,928
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1946
- 34,284 births
- Best rank
- #4
- in 1941
- First recorded
- 1880
- #685 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1950
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 194634,284#5Peak
- 194733,543#6
- 194331,686#5
- 194430,456#5
- 194530,389#5
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #4 in 1941 · peak births 34,284 in 1946
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 1% boys■ 99% girls
8,656 boys · 816,928 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Carol has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.