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The name Carol is a diminutive form of Carolyn. The table below indicates the number of times the name Carol has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Carol**
Use of the Name Carol for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
813,394	254,199	15,157	3,314	1,417	554	283

The table below indicates the number of times the name Carol has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Carol**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	685	7
1881	513	11
1882	827	6
1883
1884	800	8	995	5
1885	661	11
1886	610	14
1887	590	15
1888	561	20
1889	443	30
1890	510	26
1891	526	24	862	6
1892	504	29	975	6
1893	503	30
1894	519	31
1895	404	48	997	6
1896	480	37
1897	455	42	863	7
1898	391	63
1899	361	65
1900	392	71
1901	378	61
1902	357	80
1903	389	67	744	10
1904	330	98
1905	349	93
1906	338	98
1907	328	112	824	11
1908	293	146
1909	301	142	617	19
1910	285	186	825	14
1911	291	181	988	12
1912	246	324	765	32
1913	254	333	820	34
1914	250	440	702	54
1915	243	595	657	78
1916	215	788	586	98
1917	215	798	602	97
1918	196	1,013	620	98
1919	200	935	747	74
1920	182	1,138	607	108
1921	165	1,375	559	126
1922	158	1,519	542	133
1923	139	1,862	614	107
1924	132	2,095	552	131
1925	119	2,284	505	146
1926	113	2,421	466	166
1927	106	2,651	397	227
1928	77	3,345	425	195
1929	63	4,273	400	211
1930	54	4,602	383	221
1931	46	4,889	352	247
1932	32	6,570	380	217
1933	20	8,213	327	267
1934	14	10,267	345	252
1935	11	11,735	379	206
1936	10	14,516	338	262
1937	6	17,329	323	279
1938	6	19,421	337	270
1939	6	20,165	346	260
1940	6	21,754	361	251
1941	4	24,178	372	242
1942	5	30,272	371	270
1943	5	31,627	408	228
1944	5	30,423	461	174
1945	5	30,385	431	190
1946	5	34,188	490	171
1947	6	33,513	525	166
1948	8	28,952	599	126
1949	8	26,765	589	131
1950	9	26,143	604	127
1951	11	24,727	664	109
1952	12	24,014	686	103
1953	16	22,257	794	81
1954	15	22,249	764	87
1955	16	22,042	820	79
1956	16	21,398	768	92
1957	18	21,881	799	88
1958	20	19,679	907	69
1959	22	18,131	877	76
1960	23	17,470	824	85
1961	24	16,652	853	80
1962	28	14,530	884	74
1963	33	12,498
1964	36	12,135
1965	42	10,104	974	57
1966	48	8,265
1967	47	7,505
1968	48	7,085
1969	55	6,147
1970	71	5,070
1971	90	3,865
1972	109	3,015
1973	120	2,469
1974	137	2,048
1975	149	1,791
1976	171	1,493
1977	198	1,345
1978	203	1,263
1979	225	1,161
1980	232	1,106
1981	238	1,040
1982	260	946
1983	253	939
1984	267	906
1985	292	840
1986	310	767
1987	319	758
1988	331	741
1989	339	750
1990	350	759
1991	384	672
1992	412	611
1993	496	503
1994	493	505
1995	525	461
1996	564	412
1997	607	374
1998	658	350
1999	744	300
2000	726	320
2001	834	274
2002	851	269
2003	884	271
2004	855	283
Totals:		813,394		7,848

During the last 125 years, parents have used Carol as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Carol appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

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