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Usage
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Variant spelling of Karl [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Related Names
See Karl
Male
Carlinpoika
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Carlsen
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Carlson
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Carlssen
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Carlsson
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Carlssøn
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Carlsøn
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Carlzon
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Female
Carldatter
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Carldotter
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Carlintytär
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Carlsdatter
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Carlsdotter
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Carlsdóttir
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Carl
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Genitive: |
Carls
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Carl
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Genitive: |
Carlin
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Partitive: |
Carlia
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- Icelandic |
Nominative: |
Carl
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Accusative: |
Carl
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Dative: |
Carli
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Genitive: |
Carls
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Carl
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Genitive: |
Carls
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Carl
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Genitive: |
Carls
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Further Information
Pronunciation
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Carl Johan Thyselius (8 June 1811 - 11 January 1891), Prime Minister of Sweden and Norway (1883-1884)
- Johan Carl Christian Brosbøll (pen name "Carit Etlar", 7 August 1816 - 9 May 1900), Danish author
- Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz (5 June 1858 - 6 November 1926), Prime Minister of Sweden (1917)
- Carl Gustaf Ekman (6 October 1872 - 15 June 1945), Prime Minister of Sweden (1926-1928; 1930-1932)
- Carl XVI Gustaf Folke Hubertus (born 30 April 1946), Sveriges Konung (King of Sweden)
- Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949), Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994)
- Carl Philip Edmund Bertil (born 13 May 1979), Prins av Sverige, Hertig av Värmland (Prince of Sweden, Duke of Värmland)
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 49,703 people were named Carl (percentage of first or only given name: 89 %) [8]
- Carl was a heavy storm in Denmark in March 2014.
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
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Sweden[10] |
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24072 |
139959 |
2 |
24 |
24070 |
139935 |
Denmark[11] |
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9359 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
9359 |
n.a. |
Finland[12] |
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n.a. |
6516 |
0 |
0 |
n.a. |
6516 |
Greenland[13] |
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52 |
73 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
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31 |
67 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[7] |
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3885 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
3885 |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [10][11][7][12]
Top List Ranking
Sources: [15]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Carl (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ details see Name Statistic tables