Carl

See also: carl

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l

Etymology 1

From Germanic, cognate with English Charles.

• From German and other north European Carl and Karl.
• From Latin Carolus.

Alternative forms

• Karl

Proper noun

Carl (plural Carls)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles.
   • 1882, “Doctor Carl”, in Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours, volume 31, F. Leslie Pub. Co., page 293:

     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), →ISBN, 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.

   • 2004, David W. Scott, The Disillusioned: A Story of Our Times, Fraser Books, →ISBN, page 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...

Related terms

• Carlos
• Carlo

Translations

transliterations and equivalents of "Carl"

• Albanian: Kërl (Tosk), Karl (Gheg)
• Arabic: كَارْل (ar) m (karl)
• Armenian: Կարլ (Karl)
• Belarusian: Карл m (Karl)
• Bengali: কার্ল (karlo)
• Bulgarian: Карл m (Karl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡爾 / 卡尔 (zh) (Kǎ'ěr)

• Esperanto: Karlo
• Georgian: კარლი (ḳarli)
• Greek: Καρλ (el) m (Karl), Κάρλος (el) m (Kárlos)
• Hebrew: קרל (he) m (qarl)
• Hindi: कार्ल (hi) m (kārl)
• Japanese: カル (Karu), カール (ja) (Kāru)
• Kazakh: Карл (Karl)
• Khmer: កាល់ (km) (kal)
• Korean: 칼 (ko) (Kal)
• Latvian: Kārls m
• Macedonian: Карл m (Karl)
• Marathi: कार्ल m (kārla)
• Mongolian: Карл (Karl)
• Persian: کارل (fa) (kârl)
• Russian: Карл (ru) m (Karl)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Карл m

• Tajik: Карл (tg) (Karl)
• Tamil: கார்ல் (kārl)
• Telugu: కార్ల్ (kārl)
• Thai: คาร์ล (kaan)
• Ukrainian: Карл m (Karl)
• Urdu: کارل m (kārl)
• Yiddish: קאַרל m (karl)

male given names cognate to Carl — see Charles

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

Carl (plural Carls)

1. (informal) A student at Carleton College, Minnesota.
   • 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

• ACLR, CRLA

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Carl, from German.

Proper noun

Carl

1. a male given name from English [in turn from German]

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Carl.

Danish

Proper noun

Carl

1. a male given name, variant of Karl

References

• [1] 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

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Carl

1. a male given name, a less common variant of Karl

Norwegian

Proper noun

Carl

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Karl

References

• [2] 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.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːrl/, [kɑːɭ], [kɑːl]

• Audio:

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• Homophone: kal (only if pronounced [kɑːl])

Proper noun

Carl c (genitive Carls)

1. a male given name, variant of Karl

References

• [3] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 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.