Girl
Carole
As a girl's name, Carole is understood to mean "Linked also to carol, a song of joy". It had its heyday in the 1940s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
EtymologyVariant of Caroline – "free man" (feminine of Charles)
EtymologyLinked also to "carol," a song of joy
Births by decade
1900s
18
1910s
492
1920s
2,003
1930s
26,861
1940s
50,465
1950s
16,532
1960s
10,569
1970s
2,209
1980s
940
1990s
522
2000s
210
2010s
74
Peaked in the 1940s · 110,895 total U.S. births since 1900