About the name Carole
Carole belongs to the French tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Carole first appears in Social Security records in 1901. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #35 in 1942, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 110,677 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.