Carel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Carol/Charles, from Germanic karl, 'free man'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑˈɹɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 637K
- FRFrance≈1 in 35K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Carol/Charles, from Germanic karl, 'free man'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Carel | 10 |
| FR France | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 290 | Carel | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Carel | 53 |
| PH Philippines | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Carel | 33 |
| US United States | 522 | 1 in 637K | 627 | Carel | 162 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Carel | 5 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Auguste Carelb. 1788FRFrench historian (1788-1836)
- Roger Carelb. 1927FRFrench actor (1927–2020)
- Kurt Carelb. 1928DEGerman association football player and manager
- Maurice Carelb. 1933CAuniversity professor
- Serge Carelb. 1954FRFrench politician
- Marion Carelb. 1963FRFrench linguist
- Havi Carelb. 1971GBIsraeli philosopher
- Alice Carelb. 1974FRFrench actress
- Léna Carelb. 1991FRPh.D. Université Paris-Saclay 2019
- Gilles CarelFRFrench academic
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 627 | #38,070 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 575 | #36,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 522 | #41,657 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 362 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 340 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 308 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 303 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 290 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 277 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 263 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carel mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Carol/Charles, from Germanic karl, 'free man'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Carel?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑˈɹɛɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What are other forms of the name Carel?
- In the etymology graph, Kale, Charlot and Carolus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Carel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Carel in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carel.
- How common is the name Carel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 522 people named Carel in 2010, about 1 in 637 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/carelThe 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, “Carel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.