Karlá
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Karlá is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 18th most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 210
- HNHonduras≈1 in 230
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 Karlá 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 172 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Karla in MX Mexico, US United States, BR Brazil and 5 more.
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 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karlá 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #103 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 442 | 424 | Karla | 262 |
| US United States | — | 113,141 | 1 in 2.9K | 113K | Karla | 450 |
| BR Brazil | #354 | 53,844 | 1 in 3.9K | 54K | Karla | 198 |
| HN Honduras | #18 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 230 | — | Karla | 67 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 47,098 | 1 in 359 | 47K | Karla | 85 |
| SV El Salvador | #57 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | — | Karla | 76 |
| NI Nicaragua | #18 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 213 | — | Karla | 53 |
| CR Costa Rica | #26 | 14,251 | 1 in 358 | 14K | Karla | 107 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 Karlá a male or female name?
- Karlá is a female 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 Karlá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 296 thousand people named Karlá in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karla.
- How common is the name Karlá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 113,141 people named Karlá in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Karlá compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Karlá is the 103rd most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karl%C3%A1The 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, “Karlá” — the 103rd most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.