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How popular is “Caroll” in the USA?

Number of people named “Caroll” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Caroll” by birth year

This chart shows how “Caroll” 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
1912 5 0.00000506 5 -100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 -100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 -100%
1916 15 0.000007754 15 -100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 -100%
1918 17 0.00000783 8 9 -6%
1919 10 0.000004739 10 -100%
1920 17 0.000007513 7 10 -18%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 -100%
1922 18 0.000007863 7 11 -22%
1923 11 0.000004777 5 6 -9%
1924 14 0.000005878 5 9 -29%
1925 22 0.000009429 10 12 -9%
1926 23 0.000010018 8 15 -30%
1927 27 0.000011641 12 15 -11%
1928 19 0.000008404 7 12 -26%
1929 31 0.000014141 9 22 -42%
1930 28 0.000012594 12 16 -14%
1931 31 0.000014731 12 19 -23%
1932 38 0.000017998 16 22 -16%
1933 35 0.000017505 19 16 9%
1934 40 0.00001926 27 13 35%
1935 42 0.000020097 24 18 14%
1936 47 0.000022622 26 21 11%
1937 52 0.000024405 35 17 35%
1938 53 0.000023954 41 12 55%
1939 52 0.000023599 26 26 0%
1940 65 0.000028228 42 23 29%
1941 58 0.000023805 39 19 34%
1942 67 0.000024526 52 15 55%
1943 67 0.000023737 54 13 61%
1944 64 0.000023791 49 15 53%
1945 60 0.000022617 46 14 53%
1946 86 0.000026914 65 21 51%
1947 63 0.000017489 53 10 68%
1948 45 0.000013034 36 9 60%
1949 64 0.000018366 45 19 41%
1950 50 0.000014272 34 16 36%
1951 59 0.000016016 36 23 22%
1952 53 0.000013955 31 22 17%
1953 48 0.000012456 26 22 8%
1954 37 0.000009295 16 21 -14%
1955 39 0.000009713 20 19 3%
1956 35 0.000008489 17 18 -3%
1957 34 0.000008091 24 10 41%
1958 32 0.000007741 19 13 19%
1959 29 0.000006975 22 7 52%
1960 23 0.000005537 17 6 48%
1961 23 0.000005552 16 7 39%
1962 29 0.000007186 21 8 45%
1963 26 0.000006569 14 12 8%
1964 17 0.000004373 10 7 18%
1965 22 0.000006068 17 5 55%
1966 20 0.000005754 10 10 0%
1967 16 0.000004713 10 6 25%
1968 18 0.000005328 13 5 44%
1969 18 0.000005179 18 100%
1970 17 0.000004714 17 100%
1971 10 0.000002913 10 100%
1972 10 0.000003182 10 100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 12 0.000003974 12 100%
1976 11 0.000003625 6 5 9%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 100%
1994 6 0.000001614 6 100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
2005 5 0.0000013 5 100%

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