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Carl
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carl
English
Pronunciation
en /kɑːl/ non-rhotic
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Carl.wav Southern England
en /kɑɹl/ rhotic
en /kaɾ(ə)l/ Scotland
en Karl Carol Scotland
en ɑː(ɹ)l 1
Etymology 1
From en gem -, cognate with en Charles.
From en de - and other north European de Carl and de Karl.
From en la Carolus.
Alternative forms
en Karl
Proper noun
s
en male Germanic languages Charles.
en 1882 Doctor Carl Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours 31 293 F. Leslie Pub. Co. Of course you know that Carl Duruside, or 'Doctor Carl', as he is always called by almost anybody, is my husband's brother?
1919 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, 1st World Publishing (2007), 142184298X, page 19:
And Thomas Carlyle is nine. They call him Carl, and he has a regular mania for collecting toads and bugs and frogs and bringing them into the house.
en 2004 David W. Scott The Disillusioned: A Story of Our Times Fraser Books 0958233284 204 I'd weave through the throng — scanning for empties to return while flirting, sniffing out kids smoking grass and sharing smokes with Ivor and Carl on the door. With a name like Carl you can imagine a six-foot tall and wide bouncer, but Ivor...
en-GB Brendan Simms Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump? w:The Guardian 2026-01-16 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/nazi-theorist-vision-great-spaces-new-advocate-trump 0261-3077 Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “crown jurist” and political theorist, Carl Schmitt, in the Trump administration’s domestic policies, particularly his doctrine of “the exception”, which can be used to suspend certain constitutional rights. https://web.archive.org/web/20260116054531/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/nazi-theorist-vision-great-spaces-new-advocate-trump
Related terms
en Carlos
en Carlo
en Carlson
Translations
transliterations and equivalents of "Carl"
Albanian: sq Kërl (Tosk), sq Karl (Gheg)
Arabic: ar كَارْل m karl
Armenian: hy Կարլ
Belarusian: be Карл m
Bengali: bn কার্ল
Bulgarian: bg Карл m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 卡爾 Kǎ'ěr
Esperanto: eo Karlo
Georgian: ka კარლი
Greek: el Καρλ m, el Κάρλος m
Hebrew: he קרל m qarl
Hindi: hi कार्ल m kārl
Japanese: ja カル Karu, ja カール Kāru
Kazakh: kk Карл
Khmer: km កាល់
Korean: ko ^칼
Latvian: lv Kārls m
Macedonian: mk Карл m
Marathi: mr कार्ल m
Mongolian: mn Карл
Persian: fa کارل kârl
Russian: ru Карл m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Карл m
Slovak: sk Karol m
Tajik: tg Карл
Tamil: ta கார்ல்
Telugu: te కార్ల్
Thai: th คาร์ล kaan
Ukrainian: uk Карл m
Urdu: ur کارل m kārl
Yiddish: yi קאַרל m
male given names cognate to Carl Charles
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Noun
en informal A student at Carleton College, Minnesota.
en 2005 Adam Zang; Jendrey Julie; Chris Mason Carleton College Located in rural Minnesota, Carleton is not surrounded by any cultural diversity unless you count pig farms and cow farms as separately diverse institutions. The nice thing about Carleton is that Carls are pretty much non-judgmental
Anagrams
en aclr ACLR CRLA
Cebuano
Etymology
ceb :der en:Carl<ety:uder<de:->> 2 1
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb male English < German
ceb 21 November 2010 Olandria, Monnahlie G https://www.philstar.com/balita/2010/11/21/631634/nangawat-og-helmet-tiklo Nangawat og Helmet Tiklo Banat News Siya maoy gitumbok nga misakiyo sa duha ka helmet nga gipanag-iya ni Carl Ebo, 25, ulitawo, nga taga A. Lopez Street sa Brgy. Calamba ning dakbayan. https://web.archive.org/web/20190424021035/https://www.philstar.com/balita/2010/11/21/631634/nangawat-og-helmet-tiklo 24 April 2019
2011 — Ahente Gisuwayan Pagtulis, Napusilan (21 September), SuperBalita
ceb Usa ka ahente sa hardware gisuwayan pagtulis ug gipusil pasado ala una kagahapon sa kaadlawon sa La Tresas, Barangay Labangon, dakbayan sa Sugbo. Way nakuha gikan sa biktima kay nisukol. Ang samdan sa tuo nga abaga giilang mao si Carl Francis Nino Remigoso, 25, nagpuyo duol sa lugar nga nahitaboan, usa ka ahente sa Atlantic Hardware.
2012 — Suarez, Lloyd, Gun for Hire ang Mipatay sa Anak sa Mayor? (16 May), Super Hirit, Cebu Daily News
ceb Posible nga kadtong pagtimbaya ug pag-abi-abi ni Carl Vinson Apura sa mipusil-patay kaniya resulta kadto sa iyang pagkamanggihatagon.
Danish
Proper noun
da male Karl
References
Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 42 636 males with the given name Carl (compared to 42 958 named Karl) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
German
Pronunciation
de De-Carl.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de male a less common Karl
Norwegian
Proper noun
no male, a less common spelling of no Karl
References
Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 3 726 males with the given name Carl (compared to 9 245 named Karl) living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.
Old English
Proper noun
m
ang male Charles.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
ang An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm... Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.
Swedish
Pronunciation
sv /kɑːrl/ [kɑːɭ] [kɑːl]
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Carl.wav
sv kal (only if pronounced [kɑːl])
Proper noun
c
sv male Karl
References
Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, 9119551622: 125 372 males with the given name Carl (compared to 209 909 named Karl) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.