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Karl
Rank in 2024
#1,686
Born in 2024
99
Peak year
1960 · #135
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 99 boys were named Karl, about 1 in every 17,326.
- It peaked in 1960 with 2,594 babies, ranked #135.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 100,733 boys have been named Karl since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Karl per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.6Greatest1901–27
- 0.7Silent1928–45
- 1.0Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 9,976 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Silent: 14,058 babies, 0.68 per 1,000. Boomers: 35,866 babies, 0.96 per 1,000. Gen X: 20,360 babies, 0.75 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,094 babies, 0.43 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,636 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,660 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From German and North Germanic (Scandinavian) Karl, from Germanic. Doublet of Charles.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Karl, CC BY-SA 4.0.