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The first name 
Carols

Carols is a first name for boys.

Carols – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Carols has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Carols. That means that a boy named Carols is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Carols.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Carols

Carols -
at home in California and New Jersey

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Carols, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or New Jersey. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Carols living in one state or another. (If your name is Carols and you live outside of California and New Jersey, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 575,572 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Carols. So if your name is Carols, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Carols already makes you quite special.

Carols has 6 letters 
and begins with a C

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 boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With six letters, the name Carols 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.

With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.

Other names with 
C, a, r, o, l and s

If you take all the letters in the name Carols – C, a, r, o, l and s – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Carlos.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Carols

If your name is Carols 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...

This is how you spell the name Carols

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Carols, you can simply say:

Cat

Apple

Rocket

Orange

Lion

Sun

This is how the name Carols is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Carols in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Carols

Carols

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Carols

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Carols is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
A
R
O
L
S

Have you ever waved the name Carols

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
S

Beeping like crazy...

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. Carols sounds like this: