Chârles
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chârles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Gabon it is the 8th 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”).
- USUnited States1 in 275(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.5K
- BRBrazil1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- 1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)
1,207,972 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Charles in US United States, GA Gabon.
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”).
Sources 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)
Chârles 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.
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 Chârles 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.
- In which country does Chârles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 million people named Chârles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charles.
- Where is Chârles most common?
- Chârles is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 275 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chârles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,207,972 people named Chârles in 2020, about 1 in 275 residents.
- How common is Chârles compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Chârles is the 8th most common given name of 2,821 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%A2rlesThe 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, “Chârles” — the 8th most common given name in Gabon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.