Kàroly
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kàroly is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Hungary. Recorded meaning: l.from the personal name Karoly, Hungarian form of Charles. 2. habitational name from a place so named in Bihar County. 3.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
l.from the personal name Karoly, Hungarian form of Charles. 2. habitational name from a place so named in Bihar County. 3. possibly from karuly, variant of karvaly ‘sparrow-hawk’, a symbolic name from a totemic animal of an ancient Hungarian tribe.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kàroly counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | — | 47K | — |
| US United States | — | 418 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 179 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 128 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 86 | — |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kàroly mean, and where does it come from?
- l.from the personal name Karoly, Hungarian form of Charles. 2. habitational name from a place so named in Bihar County. 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- Is Kàroly a male or female name?
- Kàroly 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 Kàroly have the most bearers?
- Kàroly is most frequently recorded in Hungary.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A0rolyThe 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, “Kàroly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.