Carol is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Carol is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,612 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,611 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In total, there are currently 812,914 people – children, adults and seniors – named Carol living in the United States, which is approximately 0.24 % of the entire population.
Carol is one of the most common names in the U.S. – in all states combined, 807,571 women would currently turn around if you called out CAROL really loud. Across all states and age groups, this lands Carol on position 23 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top female names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above. With so many women named Carol, it’s no surprise that the name is widely used in every single state in the U.S., but would you have guessed that it’s especially popular in South Dakota? Here, 0,976% of all female residents bear the name Carol – that is a total of 4,988 women with this popular name and no other state has as many women named Carol relative to its population. But that’s not all the popularity: in South Dakota Carol belongs to the top 10 of all womens names – the 4,988 elevate their name up to place #6 in the SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names for South Dakota.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Carol is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Carol and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Carol, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Orange
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Carol
Carol
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Carol sounds like this:
