as a First Name
From an old-fashioned German spelling variant of Karl, the German version of Charles. It is now increasingly used in the English-speaking world, and for some reason is particularly popular in Wales.
| 145th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 391,513
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 474,446
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Carl per capita
- 1915
- marked the height of its popularity
0.06%
99.94%
53%
55+
55+
35%
30-54
30-54
8%
13-29
13-29
4%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
