Carli
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from the Germanic languages
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɾli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 417K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 8.2K
- UYUruguay1 in 12K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carli is read(measured from records)
Carli is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carli in Portuguese.
- English19%
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carli in Spanish.
- French12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Carli in French.
- Italian11%
do nome germânico Karl/Carlos, latinizado em Carolus/Carlus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Carli, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 784 | Carli | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | listed | Carli | 76 |
| FR France | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 115 | — | 6 |
| US United States | 798 | 1 in 417K | 8.1K | Carli | 341 |
| AR Argentina | 614 | 1 in 74K | 614 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 276 | 1 in 12K | 276 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 124 | 1 in 17K | 124 | — | 6 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Carli is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Karl; Diminutivsuffix -i/-li, Bearer count: 74.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Gian Rinaldo Carlib. 1720SIItalian historian, writer and economist (1720-1795)
- Mario Carlib. 1889ITItalian poet, novelist, essayist, diplomat and journalist (1889–1935)
- Arnaldo Carlib. 1901ITItalian track cyclist, 1920 Olympic gold team pursuit (1901–1983)
- Laura Carlib. 1906ITItalian actress (1906-2005)
- Guido Carlib. 1914ITItalian economist and politician (1914-1993)
- Carlo Carlib. 1945ITItalian politician
- Carlo Carlib. 1960AUAustralian politician
- Robert Carlib. 1970CAmusical artist
- Joel Carlib. 1986ARArgentinian association football player
- Diletta Carlib. 1996ITItalian swimmer
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 53 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 850 | #29,580 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 798 | #29,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 769 | #29,040 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 614 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 276 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 124 | #3,633 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 115 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Carli mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from the Germanic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carli?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾli/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Carli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named Carli in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carli.
- How common is the name Carli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 798 people named Carli in 2010, about 1 in 417 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Carli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carliThe 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, “Carli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.