Cárla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cárla is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Carla.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 152(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 344
- CLChile≈1 in 564
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cárla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #779 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 440 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 152 (inferred from the name graph)
303,790 people, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carla in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Italian Carla.
Cited for this meaning 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cárla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #85 | 303,790 | 1 in 697 | 327K | Carla | 227 |
| US United States | — | 144,782 | 1 in 2.3K | 145K | Carla | 440 |
| ES Spain | #146 | 87,268 | 1 in 573 | 87K | Carla | 212 |
| IT Italy | #181 | ≈76,000 est. | ≈1 in 821 | 139 | Carla | 178 |
| AR Argentina | #217 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 654 | 109 | Carla | 160 |
| PT Portugal | #26 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 152 | listed | Carla | 191 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 47,098as Karla | 1 in 359 | 47K | Carla | 78 |
| BO Bolivia | #5 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 344 | — | Carla | 75 |
| CL Chile | #165 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 564 | 75 | Carla | 138 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 14,251as Karla | 1 in 358 | 14K | — | 79 |
303,790 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cárla mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian Carla. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- Is Cárla a male or female name?
- Cárla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Cárla have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 304 thousand people named Cárla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carla.
- How common is the name Cárla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 303,790 people named Cárla in 2022, about 1 in 697 residents.
- How common is Cárla compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Cárla is the 85th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A1rlaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cárla” — the 85th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.