Karlo
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Karlo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: homarus vulgáris, hlap.
- CUCuba1 in 12◐
- GTGuatemala1 in 23
- ECEcuador1 in 49
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.8M ●
- #20 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 554 ●
- 1 in 49 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
18M records
Official registry-verified
Ecuador
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carlos in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 13 more, Carlo in PH Philippines, IT Italy, CR Costa Rica and 1 more, Charles in CU Cuba, GR Greece, PA Panama and Karl in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
homarus vulgáris, hlap
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #4 | 8,160,756 | 5.2M rec. | — | 3.6K | Carlos | 203 |
| MX Mexico | #7 | 3,378,831 | 2.6M rec. | — | 3.8K | Carlos | 311 |
| PE Peru | #5 | 2,397,209 | 1.8M rec. | — | 370K | Carlos | 179 |
| VE Venezuela | #9 | 2,141,607 | 1M rec. | — | — | Carlos | 169 |
| GT Guatemala | #5 | 1,570,342 | 142K rec. | — | 573K | Carlos | 138 |
| BR Brazil | #8 | 1,474,492 | 1.3M rec. | 1 in 144 | 1.5M | Carlos | 293 |
| US United States | #151 | 1,206,062 | 2.6M rec. | 1 in 276 | 1.2M | Carlos | 554 |
| CU Cuba | #9 | 1,008,007 | 24K rec. | — | — | Charles | 88 |
| CO Colombia | #4 | 891,632 | 375K rec. | — | 639 | Carlos | 247 |
| CL Chile | #8 | 865,962 | 99K rec. | — | 363 | Carlos | 196 |
| EC Ecuador | #5 | 343,095△ | 16K rec. | 1 in 49 | 343K | Carlos | 152 |
| ES Spain | #12 | 273,546 | 857K rec. | 1 in 183 | 276K | Carlos | 305 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Croatian93K60%
- Spanish22K15%
- English9.4K6%
- Georgian6.9K4%
- Portuguese5.2K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 92,793 | 60% |
| Spanish | 22,386 | 15% |
| English | 9,426 | 6% |
| Georgian | 6,853 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 5,199 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Karlo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., eindeutschende Schreib weise von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Esperanto, a male given name from Proto-Germanic, equivalent to English Charles or Carl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, various sort
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1970 | 10 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 13 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 11 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 14 |
| 1980 | 14 |
| 1981 | 12 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 18 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 16 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 22 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 10 |
| 1996 | 17 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 32 |
| 2004 | 30 |
| 2005 | 31 |
| 2006 | 33 |
| 2007 | 27 |
| 2008 | 27 |
| 2009 | 33 |
| 2010 | 39 |
| 2011 | 29 |
| 2012 | 29 |
| 2013 | 18 |
| 2014 | 29 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 21 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | 31 |
| 2022 | 31 |
| 2023 | 34 |
| 2024 | 34 |
| 2025 | 30 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1959–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Carlo Borromeob. 1538ITnot in their usual nameItalian Catholic prelate (1538–1584)
- Clemens XIIIb. 1693ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
- Carlo Goldonib. 1707FRnot in their usual nameItalian playwright (1707-1793)
- Amedeo Avogadrob. 1776ITnot in their usual nameItalian scientist
- Humbert Ib. 1844ITnot in their usual nameking of Italy (1844-1900)
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampib. 1920ITnot in their usual namePresident of Italy from 1999 to 2006
- Carlo Di Palmab. 1925ITnot in their usual nameItalian cinematographer (1925–2004)
- Carlo Rubbiab. 1934ITnot in their usual nameItalian particle physicist
- Carlo Ancelottib. 1959ITnot in their usual nameItalian football player and manager
- Carlo Cudicinib. 1973ITnot in their usual nameItalian association football player (born 1973)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 66 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15K | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12K | #85 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,543 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 562 | #461 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 551 | #212 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 539 | #8,712 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 358 | #734 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 353 | #364 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 279 | #2,854 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 245 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 242 | #21,979 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 199 | #25,330 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 344 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Karlo?
- We estimate roughly 3.8 million people bear Karlo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Karlo have the most bearers?
- Karlo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled carlos.
- How common is Karlo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Karlo is the 4th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Karlo a male or female name?
- Karlo 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.
- What does the name Karlo mean?
- Recorded meaning: homarus vulgáris, hlap
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Karlo” — the 4th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.