Carrol

Where Carrol comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Carrol.

  • Germanic
Carrol through the years
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #994 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #423
    175 babies named Carrol, its best rank.
  3. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #717.
  4. 1990
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Carrol in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.