Carvel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Carville, a place-name in northern France meaning ‘Kari’s settlement’; or a variant of Carroll
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Carvel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 869K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 869K (inferred from the name graph)
383 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Carville, a place-name in northern France meaning ‘Kari’s settlement’; or a variant of Carroll.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carvel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 383 | 1 in 869K | 333 | Carvel | 22 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | — | — | Carvel | 2 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Carvel | 26 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 86 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | — | 21 | — | — |
383 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
Carvel 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 English, Synonym of caravel (“a light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, ME carvel, kervel ‘a small ship’; nickname for a sailor; first attested Roger de la Keruel c1204–14 Black
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- K. Anbertb. 1870NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian painter (1870–1933)
- Carvel Collinsb. 1912born:1912|died:1990-04-10|; Collins, Carvel; Collins, Carvel, 1912-; Collins, Carvel Emerson, 1912-; Collins, Carvel Emerson (1912-1990).
- Donald Fergusonb. 1934CAnot in their usual namePh.D. Rutgers University, New Brunswick 1963
- Bill Grahamb. 1939CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician (1939–2022)
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 230 | #87,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 201 | #86,341 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 175 | #102,688 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86 | #70,869 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Carvel mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Carville, a place-name in northern France meaning ‘Kari’s settlement’; or a variant of Carroll. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Carvel a male or female name?
- Carvel 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.
- In which country does Carvel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 383 people named Carvel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carvel.
- Where is Carvel most common?
- Carvel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 869 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Carvel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 383 people named Carvel in 2020, about 1 in 869 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/carvelThe 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, “Carvel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.