Kârlos
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kârlos is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name.
- ECEcuador1 in 49as Carlos(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 56as Carlos
- ARArgentina≈1 in 63as Carlos
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 Kârlos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #39 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 605 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)
1,474,492 named Carlos, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador, as Carlos
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carlos in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 4 more and Karl in SE Sweden.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kârlos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #6 | 1,474,492as Carlos | 1 in 144 | 1.5M | Carlos | 305 |
| US United States | #202 | 1,207,972as Charles | 1 in 275 | 1.2M | Carlos | 605 |
| AR Argentina | #4 | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | 3.6K | Carlos | 218 |
| CO Colombia | #5 | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 77 | 639 | Carlos | 265 |
| VE Venezuela | #10 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | — | Carlos | 174 |
| EC Ecuador | #3 | 343,095as Carlos | 1 in 49 | 343K | Carlos | 162 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198,642as Karl | 1 in 51 | 199K | Karl | 99 |
| SV El Salvador | #9 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | — | Carlos | 136 |
1,474,492 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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
- Is Kârlos a male or female name?
- Kârlos is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kârlos have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Carlos, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kârlos most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kârlos itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 49 people named Carlos.
- How common is the name Kârlos?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,474,492 people named Carlos in 2022, about 1 in 144 residents.
- How common is Kârlos compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Kârlos is the 6th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kârlos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A2rlosThe 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, “Kârlos” — the 6th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.