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I think I could see this one making a comeback. I do prefer the Carole spelling. It has a bit more panache and reminds me of Carole Lombard.

I know a Carol who has a sister called Robin, Their parents met at Christmas.

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While I'm not a fan of the name, I don't hate it.

This message was edited 3/11/2021, 3:21 AM

I think of it as a musical name, and therefore not one that I'd choose. I named my daughter Caroline, which has a totally different vibe as far as I'm concerned.

Love it. Ever since I heard the song "Oh Carol!" by Neil Sedaka, it's been always been high on my list of favorite names. Carol seems to me like the name of a fun aunt, or a schoolgirl from the late 1950s/ early 1960s.

Carol is actually really cute! I have a soft spot for the name Carol-Anne, it's so sweet and old fashioned. Carol is cheery and industrious and approachably beautiful. I think Carole Lombard helped give it some glitz.

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I don't know if I've ever known a Carol, actually! Isn't that amazing? Maybe it wasn't popular in my city. Or maybe I just never knew they were Carols.

I'm sorry to be blunt, but I think it's hideous. However, I know that's because, to me, it is about as dated and unfashionable as it can be, and I associate it with the pleasant but offensively dressed, puff-banged school secretaries of my youth.

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My own name is Caroline, and I like it. So it must really be the associations that turn me off to it rather than the sound.

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(I can be rather, uh, clumsy and lumbering. In my twenties, I had a job at a coffee shop where I would regularly knock stuff over, drop things, spill milk, etc, and one of my co-workers came to affectionately bellow, "uh oh, Carol's coming, watch out!" when I'd have a clumsy day. There's just something about the name Carol that seems graceless.)