Caroll
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəɹəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caroll is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs and WR Yorks;. from Ó Cearbhaill or Mac Cearbhaill, see Carroll .
- USUnited States1 in 198K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 64K
- PEPeru≈1 in 82K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
1,684 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs and WR Yorks;. from Ó Cearbhaill or Mac Cearbhaill, see Carroll .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caroll counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,684 | 1 in 198K | 1.3K | Caroll | 234 |
| PE Peru | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Caroll | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Caroll | 64 |
| FR France | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 223K | 100 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 1 | Caroll | 56 |
| CL Chile | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Caroll | 11 |
| CR Costa Rica | 80 | 1 in 64K | 80 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Caroll | 13 |
1,684 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Caroll Spinneyb. 1933USAmerican puppeteer (1933–2019)
- Caroll-Ann Alieb. 1960CACanadian Olympic windsurfer
- Caroll Longo Iglesiab. 1964UYUruguayan writer
- Caroll Bettyb. 1970FRFrench actress
- Caroll Vanweldenb. 1971BEBelgian pianist
- Caroll Z. LandauroPEPeruvian herpetologist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 810 | #29,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 782 | #28,674 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 552 | #42,328 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Caroll mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lancs and WR Yorks;. from Ó Cearbhaill or Mac Cearbhaill, see Carroll . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- Is Caroll a male or female name?
- Caroll is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Caroll?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɹəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Caroll have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Caroll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caroll.
- Where is Caroll most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caroll is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Caroll?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,684 people named Caroll in 2020, about 1 in 198 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carollThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Caroll”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.