Karlé
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Karlé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Weak form of Karl; from Old Norse Karli, Kalli.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 188K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 195K
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
- 98 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
1,768 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Karle in US United States.
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)
Weak form of Karl; from Old Norse Karli, Kalli.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karlé 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 | 1,768 | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Karle | 22 |
| AR Argentina | 112 | 1 in 406K | 112 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 46 | 1 in 222K | 46 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 43 | 1 in 195K | 43 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 40 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 29 | 1 in 202K | 29 | — | — |
1,768 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 Karlé mean, and where does it come from?
- Weak form of Karl; from Old Norse Karli, Kalli. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Karlé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Karlé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karle.
- Where is Karlé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karlé is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karlé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,768 people named Karlé in 2010, about 1 in 188 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/karl%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, “Karlé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.