Caroli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: plural of Carolus
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Caroli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 140K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 141K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 146K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of Carolus
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caroli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Caroli | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 146 | 1 in 1.5M | 189 | Caroli | 49 |
| PE Peru | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 303K | — | Caroli | 19 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Caroli | 15 |
| US United States | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 110 | Caroli | 41 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Caroli | 9 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 141K | 18 | — | 1 |
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 2000; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Caroli is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante arcaica de Carli
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, genitivische latinisierte Form zu Karl; 94 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Italian, Variante di Carli
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Pierre Carolib. 1480FRFrench theologian
- Rodolfo Carolib. 1869ITItalian prelate of the Catholic Church (1869-1921)
- Guido Carolib. 1927ITItalian speed skater (1927–2021)
- Germana Carolib. 1931ITItalian singer
- Rolf Carolib. 1933DEGerman boxer (1933–2007)
- Angelo Carolib. 1937ITItalian footballer (1937–2020)
- Walter Carolib. 1942DEGerman politician
- Daniele Carolib. 1959ITItalian bicycle racer
- Mario Carolib. 1974ITItalian flautist
- Sonia O'Neillb. 1994CAnot in their usual nameVenezuelan footballer (born 1994)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 512 | #16,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Caroli mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of Carolus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Caroli a male or female name?
- Caroli is a female 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.
- In which country does Caroli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 401 people named Caroli in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caroli.
- How common is the name Caroli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 146 people named Caroli in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Caroli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caroliThe 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, “Caroli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.