All around the world, Károly (Károly 
, Karoly 
, Карой 
, along with others...) is a common primarily male, but very infrequently feminine forename. The first name Károly is characteristic of Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, where it is quite a common masculine name, Romania, and Slovakia, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Hungary, Romania, and Germany. Also, Károly is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Károly | Germany, Romania, Hungary, United States, Slovakia |
| Karoly | Germany, Romania, Hungary, United States, Tanzania |
| Карой | Ukraine, Russia |
| קארוי | Israel |
Carel, Carl, Carles, Carlo, Carlos, Carolus, Charel, Charles, Charlez, Gonzaga, Karel, Karl, Karlo, Karlová, Karol, Karolis, Karolyi, Károlyi, Siarl, Карай, Карал, Караль, Карел, Карл, Карла, Карлас, Карлес, Карло, Карлос, Карлуш, Карол, Каролис, Кароль, Каролюс, Чарлз, Чарлс, Чарльз, Чарльз, Шарль, Шарл, Шарль, צ'ארלס, קארל, קרל, קרלו, קרלוס, קרלס, שארל, تشارلز, شارل, كارل,
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károly salbeck Hugnarian bishop, RO (b. 1725) |
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eszterházy károly Hungarian priest, HU (b. 1725) |
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palma károly ferenc Hungarian Jesuit bishop, HU (b. 1735) |
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zichy károly Hungarian large estate owner, politician (1753-1826), HU (b. 1753) |
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| bebo károly Hungarian sculptor, builder and decorator, HU (b. 1712) |
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| sigray károly Hungarian land owner, supremus comes (1716-1800), HU (b. 1716) |
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| károly dujardin Hungarian Catholic priest (b. 1719) |
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| károly majthényi (b. 1721) |
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kisfaludy károly Hungarian writer (1788-1830), HU (b. 1788) |
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fejér károly actor, HU (b. 1790) |
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andrássy károly Hungarian politician (1792-1845), HU (b. 1792) |
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kiss károly historian, poet, writer, soldier (1793-1866), HU (b. 1793) |
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| hadaly károly Hungarian mathematician (1743-1834), HU (b. 1743) |
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| károly koppi (1744-1801), RO (b. 1744) |
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| beniczky jános károly Hungarian canon from Pécs (1746-1817), HU (b. 1746) |
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Kis, Katona, Kocsis, Tamás, Farkas, Fekete, Molnár, Miklós, Márton, Sándor, Balázs, Kovács, Király, Pintér, Lakatos, Juhász, Takács, Török, Németh, Halász, László, Horváth, Kardos, Balogh, Szűcs, Szőke, Kiss, Papp, Gál, Nagy, Vass, Mezei, Simon, Sipos, Antal, Barna, Szilágyi, Kozma, Tóth, Varga, Veres, Fehér, Fodor, Oláh, Szabó, Szalay, Szalai, Szász, Rácz, and Mészáros