Caŕlos
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Caŕlos is a 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. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Carlos, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic.
- ECEcuador1 in 49(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 56
- ARArgentina≈1 in 63
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 Caŕlos itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- Sources
- 605 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)
1,474,492 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Carlos in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 4 more and Karl in SE Sweden.
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)
- SpanishCarlos(measured from records)
- LatinCarolus(measured from records)
From Spanish Carlos, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caŕlos 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 | 1,474,492 | 1 in 144 | 1.5M | Carlos | 305 |
| US United States | #202 | 1,207,972as Charles | 1 in 275 | 1.2M | Carlos | 605 |
| AR Argentina | #4 | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | 3.6K | Carlos | 218 |
| CO Colombia | #5 | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 77 | 639 | Carlos | 265 |
| VE Venezuela | #10 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | — | Carlos | 174 |
| EC Ecuador | #3 | 343,095 | 1 in 49 | 343K | Carlos | 162 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198,642as Karl | 1 in 51 | 199K | Karl | 99 |
| SV El Salvador | #9 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | — | Carlos | 136 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Caŕlos mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Carlos, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- Is Caŕlos a male or female name?
- Caŕlos 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.
- In which country does Caŕlos have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Caŕlos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carlos.
- Where is Caŕlos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caŕlos is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 49 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Caŕlos?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,474,492 people named Caŕlos in 2022, about 1 in 144 residents.
- How common is Caŕlos compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Caŕlos is the 6th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ca%C5%95losThe 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, “Caŕlos” — the 6th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.