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How popular is “Carroll” in the USA?

Number of people named “Carroll” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Carroll” by birth year

This chart shows how “Carroll” 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 26 0.000129042 26 -100%
1881 22 0.000114174 22 -100%
1882 32 0.000144448 32 -100%
1883 31 0.000142893 31 -100%
1884 24 0.000098578 24 -100%
1885 26 0.000107949 26 -100%
1886 25 0.000097918 25 -100%
1887 34 0.000137434 34 -100%
1888 37 0.00012355 37 -100%
1889 33 0.000114208 33 -100%
1890 41 0.000136031 41 -100%
1891 29 0.000101161 29 -100%
1892 48 0.000143552 48 -100%
1893 50 0.000153741 50 -100%
1894 46 0.000135817 46 -100%
1895 61 0.000173779 61 -100%
1896 55 0.000153853 5 50 -82%
1897 65 0.000187343 7 58 -78%
1898 51 0.000133699 51 -100%
1899 65 0.000191608 5 60 -85%
1900 69 0.000153245 69 -100%
1901 46 0.00013302 46 -100%
1902 52 0.00013446 52 -100%
1903 60 0.000157398 60 -100%
1904 83 0.000205708 13 70 -69%
1905 72 0.000169843 72 -100%
1906 62 0.000144707 62 -100%
1907 78 0.000167601 6 72 -85%
1908 91 0.000186228 14 77 -69%
1909 102 0.000199521 15 87 -71%
1910 100 0.000169288 11 89 -78%
1911 127 0.00019712 14 113 -78%
1912 264 0.00026719 8 256 -94%
1913 293 0.000257671 29 264 -80%
1914 414 0.000292302 32 382 -85%
1915 560 0.000305606 33 527 -88%
1916 578 0.000298798 37 541 -87%
1917 615 0.000306466 52 563 -83%
1918 584 0.000268987 63 521 -78%
1919 591 0.000280062 61 530 -79%
1920 647 0.000285949 40 607 -88%
1921 719 0.000307988 50 669 -86%
1922 643 0.00028089 54 589 -83%
1923 764 0.000331816 64 700 -83%
1924 727 0.000305256 58 669 -84%
1925 786 0.000336862 55 731 -86%
1926 814 0.000354544 76 738 -81%
1927 762 0.000328539 68 694 -82%
1928 721 0.000318894 66 655 -82%
1929 779 0.000355357 72 707 -82%
1930 845 0.000380068 88 757 -79%
1931 830 0.000394414 80 750 -81%
1932 906 0.000429121 90 816 -80%
1933 876 0.000438121 103 773 -76%
1934 976 0.00046995 102 874 -79%
1935 929 0.000444519 119 810 -74%
1936 927 0.000446193 138 789 -70%
1937 923 0.000433197 144 779 -69%
1938 984 0.000444731 157 827 -68%
1939 921 0.000417982 133 788 -71%
1940 911 0.000395625 156 755 -66%
1941 946 0.000388274 163 783 -66%
1942 979 0.000358369 191 788 -61%
1943 1033 0.00036598 208 825 -60%
1944 882 0.000327871 176 706 -60%
1945 810 0.000305325 163 647 -60%
1946 855 0.00026758 172 683 -60%
1947 830 0.000230407 160 670 -61%
1948 783 0.000226791 177 606 -55%
1949 771 0.000221248 148 623 -62%
1950 685 0.000195527 131 554 -62%
1951 630 0.000171022 116 514 -63%
1952 585 0.000154028 99 486 -66%
1953 522 0.000135456 96 426 -63%
1954 522 0.000131132 94 428 -64%
1955 484 0.000120546 81 403 -67%
1956 488 0.000118359 96 392 -61%
1957 467 0.000111134 89 378 -62%
1958 367 0.000088778 83 284 -55%
1959 372 0.000089466 67 305 -64%
1960 363 0.00008739 90 273 -50%
1961 325 0.000078459 61 264 -62%
1962 295 0.000073104 62 233 -58%
1963 320 0.000080845 57 263 -64%
1964 266 0.000068423 61 205 -54%
1965 226 0.000062337 49 177 -57%
1966 238 0.000068476 55 183 -54%
1967 229 0.000067454 45 184 -61%
1968 219 0.000064823 47 172 -57%
1969 200 0.000057549 44 156 -56%
1970 193 0.000053514 45 148 -53%
1971 175 0.000050985 30 145 -66%
1972 156 0.000049634 22 134 -72%
1973 152 0.000050383 34 118 -55%
1974 117 0.000038487 19 98 -68%
1975 108 0.000035769 15 93 -72%
1976 107 0.000035263 22 85 -59%
1977 109 0.000034315 21 88 -61%
1978 93 0.000029302 31 62 -33%
1979 93 0.000027953 22 71 -53%
1980 92 0.000026709 14 78 -70%
1981 80 0.000023126 13 67 -68%
1982 87 0.000024801 21 66 -52%
1983 78 0.000022522 9 69 -77%
1984 60 0.000017198 13 47 -57%
1985 90 0.000025216 30 60 -33%
1986 61 0.000017149 10 51 -67%
1987 60 0.000016641 14 46 -53%
1988 52 0.000014073 5 47 -81%
1989 59 0.000015347 8 51 -73%
1990 63 0.000015939 17 46 -46%
1991 40 0.000010269 9 31 -55%
1992 47 0.000012236 15 32 -36%
1993 33 0.000008753 7 26 -58%
1994 35 0.000009415 13 22 -26%
1995 37 0.000010103 8 29 -57%
1996 26 0.000007129 8 18 -38%
1997 32 0.000008826 9 23 -44%
1998 27 0.000007341 12 15 -11%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 -100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 -100%
2001 14 0.00000374 14 -100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 -100%
2003 15 0.000003945 15 -100%
2004 12 0.000003141 12 -100%
2005 13 0.000003381 5 8 -23%
2006 16 0.000004044 16 -100%
2007 13 0.000003252 5 8 -23%
2008 9 0.00000229 9 -100%
2009 9 0.000002356 9 -100%
2010 9 0.000002435 9 -100%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 13 0.000003554 13 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 6 0.000001619 6 -100%
2015 9 0.000002432 9 -100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 11 0.000003076 6 5 9%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2019 9 0.000002593 9 -100%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 5 0.000001478 5 100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%

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