Cárlo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cárlo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Carolus, from Germanic.
- ITItaly≈1 in 377(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 49as Carlos
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 56as Carlos
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 Cárlo 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)
- #39 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 605 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 377 (inferred from the name graph)
1,474,492 named Carlos, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Carlos in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 4 more, Karl in SE Sweden and Carlo in IT Italy.
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)
From Latin Carolus, from Germanic.
Sources 11
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cárlo 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 | #6 | 1,474,492as Carlos | 1 in 144 | 1.5M | Carlos | 305 |
| US United States | #202 | 1,207,972as Charles | 1 in 275 | 1.2M | Carlos | 605 |
| AR Argentina | #4 | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | 3.6K | Carlos | 218 |
| CO Colombia | #5 | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 77 | 639 | Carlos | 265 |
| VE Venezuela | #10 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | — | Carlos | 174 |
| EC Ecuador | #3 | 343,095as Carlos | 1 in 49 | 343K | Carlos | 162 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198,642as Karl | 1 in 51 | 199K | Karl | 99 |
| IT Italy | #42 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 377 | 732 | Carlo | 260 |
| SV El Salvador | #9 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | — | Carlos | 136 |
1,474,492 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cárlo mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Carolus, from Germanic. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 9 other sources.
- Is Cárlo a male or female name?
- Cárlo is a male 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 Cárlo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Carlos, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cárlo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,474,492 people named Carlos in 2022, about 1 in 144 residents.
- How common is Cárlo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Cárlo is the 6th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A1rloThe 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, “Cárlo” — the 6th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.