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Worldwide, カーネル (Colonel , Carnell , Kernel ) is quite a rare principally male, but very seldom girly first name. The first name カーネル is characteristic of the United States, where it is a rare principally male, but scarcely feminine name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is a rare masculine name, and Ethiopia. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in the United States, India, and Pakistan. Also, カーネル is the last name as well as the forename.
VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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Colonel | Australia, United Arab Emirates, India, United States, United Kingdom |
Carnell | Australia, Malaysia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom |
Kernel | Australia, Malaysia, India, United States, United Kingdom |
カーネル is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Colonel Kurtz , the main antagonist of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now; Colonel Fitzwilliam , the fictional character from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Pride & Prejudice; Colonel Hathi , the fictional elephant from Disney's "The Jungle Book"; Colonel Forster , the fictional character from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Colonel Race , the Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, and in many other works.