Karlis

Name: Karlis: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

Pronunciation:

Karlis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name.

LVLatvia1 in 253(measured from records)
ISIceland1 in 21K
ECEcuador≈1 in 97K

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.

: Latvia (measured from records)
Record sources: 120 (measured from records)
: 1 in 253 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Kārlis

Locally spelled Kārlis in LV Latvia.

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

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

Nordic Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Karlis 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 Karlis is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
LV Latvia	#37	7,426	1 in 253	7.4K	Kārlis	93
US United States	—	307	1 in 1.1M	269	Karlis	120
EC Ecuador	—	≈190 est.	≈1 in 97K	2	—	2
GH Ghana	—	≈140 est.	≈1 in 246K	—	Karlis	5
EE Estonia	—	≈130 est.	≈1 in 11K	14	Karlis	14
NO Norway	—	≈52 est.	≈1 in 107K	190	Karlis	11
IS Iceland	—	17	1 in 21K	17	—	—

7,426 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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

Karlis is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish given name7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Venezuela, Mexico, United States, Latvia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Kārlis, Karlîs, Kârlîs, Kärlis
Danish given name9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Denmark, Latvia, United States, Sweden
Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Also written Kārlis
Russian given name11 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Also written Карлис, Kārlis, Карліс
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Kārlis, Kärlis
Greek surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Greece, Latvia
Also written Καρλης, Καρλής, Kārlis

37 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.

Notable people with this name

Rich Karlisb. 1959USAmerican football player
Dimitris Karlisb. 1971GRresearcher

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

InformalHi Karlis,

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

31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Karlis
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	155	#118,445
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	148	#110,523
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	147	#118,185
EE Estonia	Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)	—	14	#8,105
EE Estonia	Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)	—	12	#9,071
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Dictionary of American Family Names
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

Is Karlis a male or female name?: Karlis is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Finland (DVV).
In which country does Karlis have the most bearers?: In Latvia, the national register counted about 7.4 thousand people named Karlis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kārlis.
Where is Karlis most common?: Karlis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 253 people carrying it.
How common is the name Karlis?: In Latvia, the national register counted 7,426 people named Karlis, about 1 in 253 residents.
How common is Karlis compared with other names?: In Latvia, Karlis is the 37th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karlis

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Karlis” — the 37th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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