Karelle
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Karelle is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 14Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karelle 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #830 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Karelle | 10 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Karelle | 4 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | 1.1K | Karelle | 183 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Karelle | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 680K | — | Karelle | 18 |
| US United States | — | 137 | 1 in 2.4M | 121 | Karelle | 122 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 131K | 8 | Karelle | 16 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | — | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)- Karelle Ménineb. 1972FRFrench playwright and journalist
- Karelle Ogierb. 1979FRFrench politician
- Karelle Vignon Vulliermeb. 1987FRfood blogger
- Karelle Tremblayb. 1996CACanadian actress
- Karelle LeroyBEresearcher
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 1.1K | #3,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 121 | #47,514 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #47,514 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1988 | 5 | #163 |
| GP Guadeloupe | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe) | 1982 | 5 | #167 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Karelle a male or female name?
- Karelle is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2017) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Karelle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Karelle in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karelle.
- How common is the name Karelle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 137 people named Karelle in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Karelle compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Karelle is the 830th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karelle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karelleThe 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, “Karelle” — the 830th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.