Carél
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Carél is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Carel.
- INIndia≈1 in 47Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 130K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 230Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, 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 Carel in US United States, PH Philippines, IN India and 3 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 French Carel.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Carél is found
(measured from records)Carél 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Carel | 10 |
| FR France | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 290 | Carel | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Carel | 53 |
| PH Philippines | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Carel | 33 |
| US United States | 522 | 1 in 637K | 627 | Carel | 162 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Carel | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Carél mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Carel. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Carél a male or female name?
- Carél 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Carél?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Carél in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carel. After it come France, Indonesia, Philippines and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Carél?
- In the United States, the national register counted 522 people named Carél in 2010, about 1 in 637 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Carél?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/car%C3%A9lThe 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, “Carél”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.