Carole
Only 37 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. Latin at root, meaning "free man", though here it belongs entirely to women.
Carole Pronunciation
Carole is pronounced tsah-RO-le (/t͡saˈrɔlɛ/).
What Carole means
Where Carole comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Carole comes from the Latin Carolus, the name that English and French speakers both meet as Charles. The word beneath it means free man. A woman named Carole wears a masculine Latin word for liberty, given a soft French ending. The freedom in it is old. That sense is the origin here, not a later gloss.
The songwriter Carole King was born Carol Joan Klein in New York in 1942. She added the final e herself, and the French spelling stuck. Millions know the name from her records, though the Latin root ran under it long before she picked up a pen.
The meaning holds. In French mouths or English ones, Carole points back to Carolus and to one plain idea. Free man.
How many people are named Carole
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Carole. 37 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6436 among female names.
Carole as a middle name
Carole is a first name for 37 women in Poland and a middle name for another 22, a 63/37 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1516th, between Beatrix (22) and Concepcion (22).
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#1514 Bea22
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#1515 Beatrix22
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#1516 Carole22
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#1517 Concepcion22
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#1518 Dafne22