Chárles
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chárles is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Charles, from French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karlaz (“free man”).
- GDGrenada≈1 in 110(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 160
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 180
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 Chárles 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #36 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 678 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 114 (inferred from the name graph)
1,207,972 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Charles in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and 2 more, Carl in SE Sweden, IE Ireland and Karl in DE Germany.
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)- EnglishCharles(measured from records)
- FrenchCharles(measured from records)
- Old FrenchCharles(measured from records)
- LatinCarolus(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*karlaz“free man”(measured from records)
From English Charles, from French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karlaz (“free man”).
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chárles 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #10 | 1,207,972 | 1 in 275 | 1.2M | Charles | 678 |
| GB United Kingdom | #15 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 204 | 4 | Charles | 381 |
| NG Nigeria | #130 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 715 | — | Charles | 170 |
| DE Germany | #28 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 281 | listed | Karl | 268 |
| SE Sweden | #19 | 198,642as Karl | 1 in 51 | 199K | Carl | 187 |
| IE Ireland | #68 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | — | Carl | 125 |
| SG Singapore | #5 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | — | Charles | 140 |
| NZ New Zealand | #11 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | — | Charles | 171 |
| GD Grenada | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 114 | 3.3K | — | 25 |
1,207,972 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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 Chárles mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Charles, from French Charles, from Old French Charles, Carles, from Latin Carolus, from and also reinfluenced by Old High German Karl, from Proto-Germanic *karlaz (“free man”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 7 other sources.
- Is Chárles a male or female name?
- Chárles 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 Chárles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Chárles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charles.
- How common is the name Chárles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,207,972 people named Chárles in 2020, about 1 in 275 residents.
- How common is Chárles compared with other names?
- In the United States, Chárles is the 10th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%A1rlesThe 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, “Chárles” — the 10th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.