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Carl
Pronounced /kɑːl/
Rank in 2024
#1,033
Born in 2024
215
Peak year
1956 · #48
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 215 boys were named Carl, about 1 in every 7,978.
- It peaked in 1956 with 8,314 babies, ranked #48.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 504,635 boys 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.
- 6.8Greatest1901–27
- 5.9Silent1928–45
- 3.9Boomers1946–64
- 2.2Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 113,313 babies, 6.78 per 1,000. Silent: 122,389 babies, 5.93 per 1,000. Boomers: 145,405 babies, 3.87 per 1,000. Gen X: 59,387 babies, 2.18 per 1,000. Millennials: 33,996 babies, 1.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 11,795 babies, 0.38 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,060 babies, 0.19 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.