Karolos
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/kaɾolos/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from καρολος
Karolos is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Karolos is also written Карлос in Cyrillic, კარლო in Georgian and Καρολος in Greek.
- GRGreece≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 49as Carlos
- SESweden1 in 51as Karl
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 Karolos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #39 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 605 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
1,474,492 named Carlos, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Karolos in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian and 3 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carlos in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, MX Mexico and 5 more, Karlo in GT Guatemala, Karl in SE Sweden and Charles in GR Greece.
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.
How to pronounce Karolos
- Greek:/kaɾolos/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Karolos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #6 | 1,474,492as Carlos | 1 in 144 | 1.5M | Carlos | 305 |
| MX Mexico | #7 | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | 3.8K | Carlos | 331 |
| US United States | #202 | 1,207,972as Charles | 1 in 275 | 1.2M | Carlos | 605 |
| CO Colombia | #5 | ≈850,000 est. | ≈1 in 62 | 639 | Carlos | 265 |
| AR Argentina | #4 | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 64 | 3.6K | Carlos | 218 |
| EC Ecuador | #3 | 343,095as Carlos | 1 in 49 | 343K | Carlos | 162 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 60 | 573K | Karlo | 142 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198,642as Karl | 1 in 51 | 199K | Karl | 99 |
| PT Portugal | #7 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 61 | listed | Carlos | 254 |
| SV El Salvador | #9 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 53 | — | Carlos | 136 |
| GR Greece | #11 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 3 | Charles | 58 |
1,474,492 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAP — annual births; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)- Karolos Kounb. 1908GRGreek theater director (1908–1987)
- Karolos Papouliasb. 1929GR6th President of Greece (1929–2021)
- Charles IIIb. 1948GBnot in their usual nameKing of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Karolos?
- In the etymology graph, Carlos, Charles and Carol are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Karolos?
- In Greek /kaɾolos/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Karolos a male or female name?
- Karolos 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Karolos?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Carlos, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Mexico, United States, Colombia and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Karolos?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,474,492 people named Carlos in 2022, about 1 in 144 residents.
- How common is Karolos compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Karolos is the 6th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karolos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karolosThe 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, “Karolos” — ranked 5th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.