How Many People Are Named Carroll?
people named Carroll are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 24,688 people in the US has this name
Based on 41,347 babies named Carroll in Social Security records from 1880 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,033 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Anglicized form of CEARBHALL. A famous bearer of the surname was Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Carroll, 22.2% were girls and 77.8% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1880s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 8.1% in the 2000s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Carroll alive today is about 69 years old, and 77% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 80 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Carroll first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1943, to 1,033 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Carroll has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #164, in 1934. Among girls, its best rank was #517, in 1943.
| Boys | Girls | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #164 (1934) | #517 (1943) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #178 in the 1930s | #583 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Carroll alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Carroll were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,124 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Carroll was given 5.3 times as often in Maine, 5.1 times in Maryland and 3.3 times in Virginia.
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