Charlemagne
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Charlemagne (emperor)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Charlemagne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 693K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Charlemagne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
480 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carlosmagno in BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from French; name of the emperor Charles the Great
Sources 1
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Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Charlemagne is read(measured from records)
Charlemagne is one spelling over 2 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.
- French52%
De Charles + magne; forme liée à l’empereur Charlemagne, du germanique Karl « homme libre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du germanique Karl + magan, « grand Charles ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Charlemagne (emperor)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English41%
from French; name of the emperor Charles the Great
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Prankish king; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Charlemagne 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 | 480 | 1 in 693K | 638 | Charlemagne | 27 |
| BR Brazil | 21as Carlosmagno | 1 in 10M | 21 | Carlosmagno | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | 2 |
| DM Dominica | 9 | 1 in 8.2K | 9 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
480 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean Baptiste Charlemagne-Baudetb. 1734FRfrench-Russian sculptor (1734–1789)
- Jean Armand Charlemagneb. 1753FRFrench writer (1753-1838)
- Joseph-Jean Charlemagneb. 1782RURussian architect (1782-1861)
- Louis Charlemagneb. 1784RURussian architect (1784-1845)
- Joseph-Maria Charlemagne-Baudetb. 1824RURussian architect (1824-1870)
- Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagneb. 1826RURussian artist/painter (1826–1901)
- Iosif Adolfovich Charlemagneb. 1880Russian artist
- Paul Charlemagneb. 1892FRFrench painter (1892–1972)
- Manno Charlemagneb. 1948HTHaitian politician and musician (1948–2017)
- Marcus Charlemagneb. 1978GBcricketer (born 1978)
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 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 638 | #37,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 480 | #44,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 328 | #57,985 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #58,330 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #218 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Charlemagne come from?
- from French; name of the emperor Charles the Great Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How common is the name Charlemagne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 480 people named Charlemagne in 2010, about 1 in 693 thousand residents.
- What does the name Charlemagne mean?
- In French, Charlemagne (emperor)
- In which country does Charlemagne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 480 people named Charlemagne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charlemagne.
- Where is Charlemagne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Charlemagne is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 8.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charlemagneThe 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, “Charlemagne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.