Cärlos

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cärlos is a male 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 Spanish Carlos, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic.

  • ECEcuador1 in 49(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 56
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 63

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 Cärlos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,474,492 people, 2022

#39 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
605 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
CärlosLatin(measured from records)
КарлосCyrillic(measured from records)
კარლოGeorgian(measured from records)
ΚαρολοςGreek(measured from records)
카를로Hangul(measured from records)
കാർലോസMalayalam(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carlos in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 4 more and Karl in SE Sweden.

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)
Derivation of Cärlos: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Cärlos
  1. SpanishCarlos(measured from records)
  2. LatinCarolus(measured from records)

From Spanish Carlos, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic.

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Cärlos 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.

Where Cärlos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#61,474,4921 in 1441.5MCarlos305
US United States#2021,207,972as Charles1 in 2751.2MCarlos605
AR Argentina#4≈720,000 est.≈1 in 633.6KCarlos218
CO Colombia#5≈640,000 est.≈1 in 77639Carlos265
VE Venezuela#10≈460,000 est.≈1 in 63—Carlos174
EC Ecuador#3343,0951 in 49343KCarlos162
SE Sweden—198,642as Karl1 in 51199KKarl99
SV El Salvador#9≈120,000 est.≈1 in 56—Carlos136

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). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Cärlos is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lao given name77 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Spain, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Carlos, Carlo, Karlos, คาร์โล, Cärlös

  • English given name60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Carlos, Carlo'S, Carlos', Cärlös, Çarlos

  • Turkish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Carlos, Çarlos, Cârlôs, Çäŕľöş, Cärlös

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cärlos under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cärlos mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Carlos, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
Is Cärlos a male or female name?
Cärlos 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 Cärlos have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Cärlos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carlos.
Where is Cärlos most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cärlos is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 49 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cärlos?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,474,492 people named Cärlos in 2022, about 1 in 144 residents.
How common is Cärlos compared with other names?
In Brazil, Cärlos is the 6th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Cärlos” — the 6th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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