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Carl
Pronounced /kɑːl/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1928 · #959
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:215 in 2024 (#1,033)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No girls were recorded as Carl in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1928 with 61 babies, ranked #959.
- It first shows up in the records in 1885.
- 3,190 girls have been named Carl since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Carl per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0Gen Z1997–12
- 0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 773 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 712 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 639 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 620 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 311 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Germanic, cognate with English Charles. From German and other north European Carl and Karl. From Latin Carolus. ==== Alternative forms ==== Karl ==== Proper noun ==== Carl (plural Carls) A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles. 1919 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, 1st World Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 19: And Thomas Carlyle is nine. They call him Carl, and he has a regular mania for collecting toads and bugs and frogs and bringing them into the house. ===== Related terms ===== Carlos Carlo Carlson ===== Translations =====
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /kɑːl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Carl, CC BY-SA 4.0.