Kaarel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Charles
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kaarel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 328K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 510K
- LVLatvia1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kaarel 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 328K (inferred from the name graph)
20 people
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Charles
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kaarel 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.
20 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
- Kaarel Partsb. 1873EEEstonian lawyer and politician (1873–1940)
- Kaarel Eenpalub. 1888EEEstonian politician (1888–1942)
- Kaarel Karmb. 1906EEEstonian actor (1906-1979)
- Kaarel Irdb. 1909EEEstonian actor and opera singer (1909-1986)
- Henn-Kaarel Hellatb. 1932EEEstonian writer (1932-2017)
- Kaarel Kurismaab. 1939EEEstonian artist (born 1939)
- Kaarel Tarandb. 1966EEEstonian journalist (born 1966)
- Kaarel Vaidlab. 1987EEEstonian Wikimedian (born 1987)
- Kaarel Kiidronb. 1990EEEstonian footballer (born 1990)
- Kaarel Ustab. 1999EEEstonian association football player (born 1999)
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)
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 1.4K | #126 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 276 | #1,536 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #13,015 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #24,689 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Kaarel mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Charles Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kaarel a male or female name?
- Kaarel 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 Kaarel?
- In the etymology graph, Charles, Carol and Carl are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kaarel have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 20 people named Kaarel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kaarel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaarel is densest in Finland — about 1 in 328 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kaarel?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 20 people named Kaarel, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kaarel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kaarelThe 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, “Kaarel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.