Carles

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Même origine que Charles

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/karles/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Carles is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Andorra it is the 30th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 693K
  • ADAndorra≈1 in 903

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.

Spain (measured from records)

15,255 people

Sources
190 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 903 (inferred from the name graph)

Andorra, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Même origine que Charles.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carles 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.

Where Carles is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#25915,2551 in 3.3K15KCarles190
US United States—4801 in 693K475Carles150
FR France—≈270 est.≈1 in 250K355—3
GB United Kingdom—≈130 est.≈1 in 494K—Carles53
BR Brazil—981 in 2.2M306Carles39
AD Andorra#30≈85 est.≈1 in 903—Carles33
FI Finland—≈72 est.≈1 in 77K39—3
CH Switzerland—≈63 est.≈1 in 134K12—19
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——

15,255 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carles is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Carlés, Çarles, Carlès

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Cārles, Carlés, Cárles, Čārles

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Türkiye, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Карлес, Karles

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Carles is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In fro, nominative of Carlon; alternative form of Charles

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, genitive singular of carl

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Karl V., b. 1500Carles Rexach, b. 1947Carles Bosch Arisó, b. 1952Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó, b. 1962Carles Busquets, b. 1967Carles Puyol, b. 1978Carles Planas, b. 1991Carles Gil, b. 1992Carles Pérez, b. 1998Carles Aleñá, b. 1998

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)

InformalHola Carles,Hi Carles, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Carles
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#3,005
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.6K#3,003
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951546—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961520—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921506—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941501—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020475#48,050
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931451—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000450#44,895
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901448—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971447—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981418—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Carles mean, and where does it come from?
Même origine que Charles. Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
How do you pronounce Carles?
A machine transcription gives /karles/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Carles a male or female name?
Carles is a male 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.
What are other forms of the name Carles?
In the etymology graph, Carlos, Charles and Carol are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Carles have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Carles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carles.
How common is the name Carles?
In Spain, the national register counted 15,255 people named Carles, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
How common is Carles compared with other names?
In Spain, Carles is the 259th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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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, “Carles” — the 259th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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