Karl'S

org · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Karl'S is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German and Dutch; 1. variant of Karas. 2. from Karius, a reduced form of the personal name Makarios (see Macario).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 71K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 114K
  • USUnited States1 in 268K

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)

1,242 people, 2010

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karls in US United States, 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)

German and Dutch; 1. variant of Karas. 2. from Karius, a reduced form of the personal name Makarios (see Macario).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karl'S 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.

Where Karl'S is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2421 in 268K1.2KKarls34
SE Sweden1441 in 71K144—1
BR Brazil781 in 2.7M78Karls26
FI Finland491 in 114K49——
BE Belgium231 in 510K23—1
PL Poland221 in 1.7M12——

1,242 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Karl'S is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Karls

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Karl'S under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Karl'S mean, and where does it come from?
German and Dutch; 1. variant of Karas. 2. from Karius, a reduced form of the personal name Makarios (see Macario). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Karl'S have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Karl'S, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karls.
Where is Karl'S most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karl'S is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 71 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Karl'S?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,242 people named Karl'S in 2010, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.

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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, “Karl'S”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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