Karola
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʰaʁoːla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 770K
- FIFinland1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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.
Sources 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karola 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #574 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 3 | Karola | 143 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Karola | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 486 | 1 in 21K | 486 | — | 8 |
| US United States | — | 432 | 1 in 770K | 432 | Karola | 129 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 212K | 5 | Karola | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 270 | 1 in 21K | 380 | — | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 63 | Karola | 37 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 230 | 1 in 75K | 230 | Karola | 21 |
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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Karola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karola Blochb. 1905PLPolish-German architect, socialist, and feminist
- Ruth Westheimerb. 1928USnot in their usual nameGerman-American sex therapist
- Karola Ebelingb. 1935DEGerman actress
- Karola Knoblichb. 1940DEGerman politician
- Karola Gramannb. 1948DEGerman film curator
- Karola Hattopb. 1949DEGerman film director and screenwriter
- Karola Subeb. 1964DEEast German gymnast
- Karola Meederb. 1964DEGerman film director
- Karola Obermuellerb. 1977DEGerman composer of classical music
- Karola Theillb. 2000DEGerman pianist
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 54 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 486 | #2,842 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 432 | #22,868 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 380 | #1,261 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 270 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 266 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 261 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 230 | #3,295 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 203 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 116 | #7,406 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2021 | 63 | #1,876 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #20,006 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 5 | #1,663 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Karola?
- In the etymology graph, Carolyn, Carolina and Carla are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Karola?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰaʁoːla/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Karola a male or female name?
- Karola is a female 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.
- In which country does Karola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Karola in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karola.
- How common is the name Karola?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 486 people named Karola, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Karola compared with other names?
- In Germany, Karola is the 574th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karolaThe 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, “Karola” — the 574th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.