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How popular is “Carrol” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carrol” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carrol” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carrol” 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
1890 5 0.000016589 5 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 -100%
1896 7 0.000019581 7 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1902 9 0.000023272 9 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1906 13 0.000030342 13 -100%
1907 18 0.000038677 5 13 -44%
1908 15 0.000030697 15 -100%
1909 18 0.00003521 6 12 -33%
1910 24 0.000040629 11 13 -8%
1911 13 0.000020178 6 7 -8%
1912 46 0.000046556 10 36 -57%
1913 53 0.000046609 5 48 -81%
1914 82 0.000057896 13 69 -68%
1915 107 0.000058393 10 97 -81%
1916 129 0.000066687 14 115 -78%
1917 125 0.00006229 16 109 -74%
1918 134 0.00006172 21 113 -69%
1919 142 0.000067291 24 118 -66%
1920 165 0.000072924 31 134 -62%
1921 162 0.000069394 19 143 -77%
1922 168 0.000073389 24 144 -71%
1923 168 0.000072965 41 127 -51%
1924 191 0.000080198 44 147 -54%
1925 187 0.000080144 37 150 -60%
1926 160 0.000069689 38 122 -52%
1927 198 0.000085368 44 154 -56%
1928 195 0.000086247 35 160 -64%
1929 248 0.00011313 64 184 -48%
1930 237 0.000106599 46 191 -61%
1931 234 0.000111196 60 174 -49%
1932 228 0.000107991 68 160 -40%
1933 232 0.000116032 67 165 -42%
1934 266 0.000128081 91 175 -32%
1935 256 0.000122494 87 169 -32%
1936 266 0.000128034 96 170 -28%
1937 290 0.000136107 133 157 -8%
1938 310 0.000140108 140 170 -10%
1939 305 0.00013842 131 174 -14%
1940 324 0.000140705 154 170 -5%
1941 305 0.000125183 141 164 -8%
1942 267 0.000097737 140 127 5%
1943 352 0.00012471 200 152 14%
1944 279 0.000103714 170 109 22%
1945 281 0.000105921 173 108 23%
1946 261 0.000081682 172 89 32%
1947 291 0.000080781 168 123 15%
1948 225 0.00006517 138 87 23%
1949 175 0.000050218 100 75 14%
1950 180 0.000051379 85 95 -6%
1951 146 0.000039634 82 64 12%
1952 135 0.000035545 73 62 8%
1953 119 0.00003088 62 57 4%
1954 115 0.000028889 70 45 22%
1955 91 0.000022665 59 32 30%
1956 89 0.000021586 58 31 30%
1957 91 0.000021656 57 34 25%
1958 105 0.0000254 74 31 41%
1959 83 0.000019962 53 30 28%
1960 73 0.000017574 41 32 12%
1961 72 0.000017382 48 24 33%
1962 71 0.000017594 54 17 52%
1963 65 0.000016422 41 24 26%
1964 49 0.000012604 36 13 47%
1965 63 0.000017377 37 26 17%
1966 35 0.00001007 21 14 20%
1967 46 0.00001355 30 16 30%
1968 45 0.00001332 26 19 16%
1969 50 0.000014387 27 23 8%
1970 38 0.000010536 25 13 32%
1971 39 0.000011362 23 16 18%
1972 24 0.000007636 16 8 33%
1973 24 0.000007955 18 6 50%
1974 30 0.000009868 15 15 0%
1975 23 0.000007617 9 14 -22%
1976 26 0.000008569 10 16 -23%
1977 21 0.000006611 12 9 14%
1978 18 0.000005671 10 8 11%
1979 13 0.000003907 7 6 8%
1980 13 0.000003774 6 7 -8%
1981 21 0.00000607 14 7 33%
1982 16 0.000004561 6 10 -25%
1983 16 0.00000462 8 8 0%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 6 5 9%
1989 15 0.000003902 7 8 -7%
1990 11 0.000002783 11 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 100%

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