Carole is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Carole in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Carole in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Carole by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Carole ranks at #10,100. That means there are 10,099 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 106,546 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Carole. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
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 six letters, the name Carole is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Carole 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 Carole, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Rocket
Orange
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Carole
Carole
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
R
O
L
E
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.
C
A
R
O
L
E
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. Carole sounds like this:
