Charlé
surname · Latin script
Meaning: französischer Diminutiv zu Karl; 6 Belege
Charlé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 159K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 212K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
1,570 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Charle in FR France, US United States, ZA South Africa.
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)französischer Diminutiv zu Karl; 6 Belege.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Charlé 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 | 1,570 | 1 in 212K | 1.3K | Charle | 71 |
| BR Brazil | 1,332 | 1 in 159K | 1.9K | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Charle | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 4 |
| FR France | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | 44 | Charle | 152 |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
1,570 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Charlé is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, first-person singular indefinite preterite indicative of charlar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of charlar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Charlé mean?
- Recorded meaning: französischer Diminutiv zu Karl; 6 Belege.
- In which country does Charlé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Charlé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charle.
- Where is Charlé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Charlé is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 159 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Charlé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,570 people named Charlé in 2020, about 1 in 212 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charl%C3%A9The 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, “Charlé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.