Carrol
10,319 recorded births · active 1890–2002
Compare Carrol →Living-age distribution
The median living Carrol is 78. If you meet a Carrol, there's about a 70% chance they're between 61 and 86 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Carrol: 1940. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
38.9% male, 61.1% female.
Among males: median age 78 (61–88). Among females: median age 77 (61–86).
Rarity
Carrol ranks #2,739 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Name neighbors
People named Carrol have popularity-curve siblings named:
Geographic fingerprint
Carrols are 0.9x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Carrol's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Carrol's modeled peak was #672 in 1940 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Carrol hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2002 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Carrol isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Carrol enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.