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How popular is “Carole” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carole” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Carole” 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 “Carole” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carole” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carole” 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
1901 5 0.000014459 5 100%
1909 13 0.000025429 13 100%
1910 9 0.000015236 9 100%
1911 10 0.000015521 10 100%
1912 25 0.000025302 25 100%
1913 31 0.000027262 31 100%
1914 44 0.000031066 44 100%
1915 50 0.000027286 50 100%
1916 67 0.000034636 67 100%
1917 82 0.000040862 82 100%
1918 92 0.000042375 92 100%
1919 82 0.000038858 82 100%
1920 103 0.000045522 103 100%
1921 143 0.000061255 143 100%
1922 159 0.000069458 159 100%
1923 184 0.000079914 184 100%
1924 204 0.000085656 204 100%
1925 218 0.00009343 218 100%
1926 204 0.000088854 204 100%
1927 213 0.000091836 213 100%
1928 250 0.000110574 250 100%
1929 326 0.000148712 326 100%
1930 425 0.000191158 425 100%
1931 850 0.000403918 850 100%
1932 1323 0.000626631 1317 6 99%
1933 2161 0.001080799 2149 12 99%
1934 2664 0.001282733 2655 9 99%
1935 2694 0.001289057 2680 14 99%
1936 3210 0.001545068 3199 11 99%
1937 4217 0.00197919 4198 19 99%
1938 4628 0.002091681 4616 12 99%
1939 4692 0.002129396 4679 13 99%
1940 4813 0.002090169 4790 23 99%
1941 4987 0.002046851 4966 21 99%
1942 8440 0.003089518 8407 33 99%
1943 6534 0.002314921 6506 28 99%
1944 6285 0.002336363 6268 17 99%
1945 4853 0.001829312 4842 11 100%
1946 4635 0.001450565 4621 14 99%
1947 3833 0.001064036 3826 7 100%
1948 3320 0.000961617 3313 7 100%
1949 2764 0.000793164 2764 100%
1950 2218 0.000633107 2218 100%
1951 1959 0.000531797 1959 100%
1952 1836 0.000483412 1836 100%
1953 1635 0.000424274 1635 100%
1954 1507 0.000378576 1507 100%
1955 1426 0.000355161 1426 100%
1956 1418 0.000343921 1418 100%
1957 1610 0.000383138 1610 100%
1958 1510 0.000365272 1510 100%
1959 1416 0.000340549 1416 100%
1960 1689 0.000406614 1689 100%
1961 1685 0.000406779 1678 7 99%
1962 1382 0.000342472 1382 100%
1963 1152 0.000291041 1152 100%
1964 1164 0.000299413 1164 100%
1965 897 0.000247418 897 100%
1966 755 0.000217225 755 100%
1967 703 0.000207075 703 100%
1968 612 0.00018115 612 100%
1969 532 0.000153079 532 100%
1970 422 0.00011701 422 100%
1971 347 0.000101097 347 100%
1972 289 0.000091951 289 100%
1973 219 0.000072591 219 100%
1974 192 0.000063158 192 100%
1975 189 0.000062595 189 100%
1976 140 0.000046139 140 100%
1977 150 0.000047222 150 100%
1978 133 0.000041905 133 100%
1979 128 0.000038473 128 100%
1980 114 0.000033096 114 100%
1981 118 0.00003411 118 100%
1982 100 0.000028507 100 100%
1983 108 0.000031184 108 100%
1984 95 0.00002723 95 100%
1985 94 0.000026337 94 100%
1986 70 0.000019679 70 100%
1987 90 0.000024961 90 100%
1988 87 0.000023545 87 100%
1989 65 0.000016908 65 100%
1990 92 0.000023277 92 100%
1991 81 0.000020794 81 100%
1992 48 0.000012496 48 100%
1993 51 0.000013527 51 100%
1994 56 0.000015063 56 100%
1995 43 0.000011742 43 100%
1996 48 0.000013161 48 100%
1997 44 0.000012135 44 100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 100%
1999 30 0.000008122 30 100%
2000 24 0.000006349 24 100%
2001 26 0.000006946 26 100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 100%
2003 36 0.000009468 36 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 21 0.000005462 21 100%
2006 17 0.000004297 17 100%
2007 8 0.000002001 8 100%
2008 16 0.000004071 16 100%
2009 12 0.000003141 12 100%
2010 10 0.000002706 10 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 100%
2013 13 0.000003566 13 100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 11 0.000002998 11 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%
2023 9 0.000002718 9 100%

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