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Karol

Karol: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“free man”
Origin
Slavic
Say it
KAH-rawl · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls (87% of all uses)

Karol is the Polish, Slovak, and other Slavic form of Carolus, from Germanic Karl. It is traditionally masculine in Polish, as in Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła.

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How popular is Karol?

202412.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Karol in 202440

2024 rank#3,753 girls

Peak year2005

Total US babies since 188011,085

Karol is fading: recent use is about 53% of its level ten years before.

Names like Karol

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Milagracious or dear · Slavic
  • Alinabright, beautiful · Slavic
  • Verafaith · Slavic
  • Mirapeace, world · Slavic
  • Nadiahope · Slavic
  • IvannaGod is gracious · Slavic
  • Raynaqueen; pure · Slavic
  • Alenabright, shining light · Slavic

Karol questions

What does the name Karol mean?

Karol means "free man". It comes from Slavic. Karol is the Polish, Slovak, and other Slavic form of Carolus, from Germanic Karl. It is traditionally masculine in Polish, as in Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła.

Is Karol a boy or girl name?

Karol is mainly a girl's name in US records (87% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Karol?

40 US babies were named Karol in 2024. Its peak year was 2005.

How do you pronounce Karol?

Karol is usually pronounced KAH-rawl.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.