Carroll

Where Carroll comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Carroll.

  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Carroll through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #334 among boys, with 26 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1923
    Carroll Shelby born
    American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur
  3. 1931
    Carroll Baker born
    American actress
  4. 1934
    Peak, #164
    874 babies named Carroll, the most in any year.
  5. 1953
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #337.
  6. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys 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
  • Carroll Baker · American actress, born 1931
  • Carroll Shelby · American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur, 1923–2012
  • Carroll O'Connor · American actor, 1924–2001

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.