How popular is “Carol” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carol” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carol” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Carol” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Carol” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Carol” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Carol” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carol” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	7	0.000034742	7		100%
1881	10	0.000051897	10		100%
1882	6	0.000027084	6		100%
1884	13	0.000053397	8	5	23%
1885	11	0.000045671	11		100%
1886	13	0.000050917	13		100%
1887	15	0.000060633	15		100%
1888	20	0.000066784	20		100%
1889	30	0.000103826	30		100%
1890	31	0.000102853	26	5	68%
1891	30	0.000104649	24	6	60%
1892	35	0.000104673	29	6	66%
1893	30	0.000092244	30		100%
1894	31	0.000091529	31		100%
1895	54	0.000153837	48	6	78%
1896	36	0.000100704	36		100%
1897	49	0.000141228	42	7	71%
1898	68	0.000178265	63	5	85%
1899	65	0.000191608	65		100%
1900	76	0.000168792	70	6	84%
1901	61	0.000176396	61		100%
1902	86	0.000222376	80	6	86%
1903	77	0.000201994	67	10	74%
1904	98	0.000242884	98		100%
1905	97	0.000228816	91	6	88%
1906	104	0.000242735	97	7	87%
1907	123	0.000264294	112	11	82%
1908	153	0.000313108	146	7	91%
1909	161	0.00031493	142	19	76%
1910	199	0.000336882	185	14	86%
1911	193	0.00029956	181	12	88%
1912	356	0.000360301	324	32	82%
1913	366	0.000321869	332	34	81%
1914	491	0.000346667	437	54	78%
1915	674	0.000367818	596	78	77%
1916	887	0.000458536	789	98	78%
1917	895	0.000445995	798	97	78%
1918	1109	0.000510798	1011	98	82%
1919	1007	0.000477196	932	75	85%
1920	1247	0.000551125	1140	107	83%
1921	1498	0.000641678	1374	124	83%
1922	1655	0.000722974	1522	133	84%
1923	1969	0.000855164	1864	105	89%
1924	2226	0.000934662	2094	132	88%
1925	2432	0.0010423	2286	146	88%
1926	2597	0.001131144	2427	170	87%
1927	2871	0.001237842	2643	228	84%
1928	3544	0.001567491	3349	195	89%
1929	4489	0.002047751	4279	210	91%
1930	4818	0.002167061	4598	220	91%
1931	5137	0.00244109	4891	246	90%
1932	6788	0.003215095	6570	218	94%
1933	8489	0.004245674	8220	269	94%
1934	10526	0.005068335	10274	252	95%
1935	11940	0.005713192	11734	206	97%
1936	14784	0.007115978	14519	265	96%
1937	17614	0.008266883	17336	278	97%
1938	19690	0.008899137	19421	269	97%
1939	20424	0.009269134	20166	258	97%
1940	22012	0.009559276	21759	253	98%
1941	24430	0.010026987	24187	243	98%
1942	30538	0.011178636	30271	267	98%
1943	31916	0.01130747	31685	231	99%
1944	30633	0.011387398	30456	177	99%
1945	30580	0.011526965	30388	192	99%
1946	34457	0.010783628	34283	174	99%
1947	33706	0.009356743	33543	163	99%
1948	29103	0.0084295	28977	126	99%
1949	26913	0.007723021	26781	132	99%
1950	26292	0.0075048	26163	129	99%
1951	24891	0.006756993	24781	110	99%
1952	24103	0.006346227	23999	104	99%
1953	22371	0.005805155	22291	80	99%
1954	22335	0.005610811	22247	88	99%
1955	22125	0.005510475	22047	78	99%
1956	21499	0.00521436	21407	92	99%
1957	21985	0.005231855	21898	87	99%
1958	19754	0.004778534	19684	70	99%
1959	18213	0.004380239	18137	76	99%
1960	17548	0.00422455	17463	85	99%
1961	16747	0.004042922	16668	79	99%
1962	14597	0.003617262	14523	74	99%
1963	12546	0.003169623	12492	54	99%
1964	12178	0.00313252	12125	53	99%
1965	10152	0.002800205	10096	56	99%
1966	8302	0.002388614	8259	43	99%
1967	7533	0.002218919	7490	43	99%
1968	7120	0.002107498	7078	42	99%
1969	6180	0.001778252	6138	42	99%
1970	5089	0.001411058	5063	26	99%
1971	3889	0.001133041	3859	30	98%
1972	3040	0.000967231	3009	31	98%
1973	2480	0.000822039	2457	23	98%
1974	2060	0.000677632	2038	22	98%
1975	1799	0.000595815	1785	14	98%
1976	1508	0.000496984	1492	16	98%
1977	1363	0.000429089	1346	17	98%
1978	1280	0.000403293	1264	16	98%
1979	1180	0.000354674	1163	17	97%
1980	1126	0.000326897	1105	21	96%
1981	1059	0.000306125	1044	15	97%
1982	959	0.000273378	945	14	97%
1983	956	0.000276034	942	14	97%
1984	923	0.000264564	906	17	96%
1985	854	0.000239275	841	13	97%
1986	792	0.000222655	770	22	94%
1987	778	0.000215775	763	15	96%
1988	760	0.000205681	741	19	95%
1989	775	0.000201589	752	23	94%
1990	777	0.000196586	762	15	96%
1991	682	0.000175084	672	10	97%
1992	623	0.000162186	612	11	96%
1993	513	0.000136064	506	7	97%
1994	513	0.00013799	501	12	95%
1995	460	0.000125609	460		100%
1996	412	0.000112964	412		100%
1997	374	0.000103151	374		100%
1998	351	0.000095427	351		100%
1999	307	0.000083111	302	5	97%
2000	322	0.000085187	322		100%
2001	278	0.000074264	278		100%
2002	274	0.000073296	274		100%
2003	276	0.000072587	276		100%
2004	289	0.000075636	289		100%
2005	365	0.000094932	351	14	92%
2006	275	0.000069511	270	5	96%
2007	259	0.000064788	250	9	93%
2008	228	0.000058005	228		100%
2009	194	0.000050783	189	5	95%
2010	150	0.000040587	150		100%
2011	191	0.000052217	191		100%
2012	168	0.000045935	168		100%
2013	133	0.000036482	133		100%
2014	150	0.000040471	150		100%
2015	118	0.000031884	118		100%
2016	129	0.000035162	129		100%
2017	114	0.000031877	114		100%
2018	114	0.000032424	114		100%
2019	112	0.000032268	112		100%
2020	100	0.000029935	100		100%
2021	87	0.000025679	87		100%
2022	82	0.000024238	82		100%
2023	74	0.000022348	74		100%
2024	66	0.000019829	66		100%

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