Carroll

Carroll is the 226th most common surname in the United States, shared by 129,163 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,314.

By the numbers

People: 129,163
Rank: 226th
How common: 1 in 2,314
Per 100,000: 43.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Carroll described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.0%
Black, not Hispanic 11.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Carroll

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)British author and scholar
Andy Carroll (born 1989)English association football player
Diahann Carroll (1935–2019)American actress, singer, model and activist
Pat Carroll (1927–2022)American actress
Madeline Carroll (born 1996)American actress
Rocky Carroll (born 1963)American actor
Roy Carroll (born 1977)Northern Irish association football player
Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987)English actress

People named Carroll with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Carroll

Also a first name

Carroll has been given to 41,347 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1934. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.