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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old German : Free man; a variation of Charles
  • Old English : Carl's island

Boy name variations

Karl

Karl

+ 11% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Karel

Karel

+ 160% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Caroll

Caroll

0 % this year
Neutral
Rare
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Carroll

Carroll

- 17% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Carlisle

Carlisle

- 9% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Carlyle

Carlyle

- 19% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Caryl

Caryl

- 14% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Carel

Carel

0 % this year
Neutral
Rare
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Carlos

Carlos

+ 3% this year
Masculine
Common
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Carlito

Carlito

+ 7% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Carrlos

Carrlos

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Lyle

Lyle

- 4% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Lisle

Lisle

- 17% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Carley

Carley

- 31% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Carlile

Carlile

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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How Popular Is The Name Carl

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of Dutch, German, and Scandinavian Karl.
  • English : from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Karl(i), ultimately from Germanic karl ‘man’, ‘freeman’. See also Charles.
  • English : status name for a bondman or villein, from the vocabulary word karl, carl, which had various different meanings at various times: originally ‘man’, then ‘ordinary man’, ‘peasant’, and in Middle English specialized in the senses ‘free peasant’, ‘bondman’, ‘villein’, and ‘rough, churlish individual’.