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Carl is a
North Germanic male name meaning "free man". The name originates in
Old West Norse .
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It is the first name of many
Kings of Sweden including
Carl XVI Gustaf . It is popular in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, and was largely popularized in the United States by Scandinavian and Italian (shortened from "Carlo") descendants.
Karl is a Germanic spelling which is very popular in Austria, Estonia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, and was also popularized by German-speaking descendants in the United States. Other variants include the
Anglo-Saxon -
Frankish variant
Charles , popular in Australia, Philippines, Canada, France, New Zealand, the UK and the United States, although both Karl and Carl are also widespread names in most English speaking countries;
Carlo , very popular in Italy and southern Switzerland;
Carlos , popular in Spain, Portugal and Latin America; and
Karol , a variant in Poland and Slovakia.
List of people named Carl
Royalty and nobility
Most other Swedish and Norwegian royalty so named – see
Carl of Sweden – are listed on English Wikipedia as Charles .
As a family name
Christian Thomsen Carl (1676–1713), Danish navy officer. Middle name also given as Thomasen, Thomesen, or Thomasen.
As a given name
Carl Anderson (singer) (1945–2004), American singer and actor
Carl Asercion (1909–1990), American steel guitar player
Carl Ballantine (1917–2009), American actor
Carl Barât
Carl Barks
Carl Benner , American electrical engineer
Carl Bildt
Carl L. Boeckmann
Carl Bradford (born 1992), American football player
Carl "Charlie" Brandt , American serial killer
Carl Brashear , U.S. Navy master diver
Carl Byrum , American football player
Carl Caldenius , Swedish geologist
Carl Carlton , American singer-songwriter
Carl Clark (1933–2015), American photographer
Carl Cohen (businessman) (1913–1986), American gambling executive and Las Vegas casino manager
Carl Cohen (philosopher) (1931–2023), professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, philosopher, and animal rights activist
Carl Colpaert
Carl Czerny , pianist
Carl Decaluwé (born 1960), Belgian politician
Carl Dobkins Jr. (1941–2020), American singer and songwriter
Carl Douglas , Jamaican musician who wrote the disco song "Kung Fu Fighting"
Carl E. Douglas , American lawyer and member of the defense team during O.J. Simpson's murder trial
Carl Earn (1921–2007), American tennis player
Carl Edwards , NASCAR Driver
Carl Erskine (1926–2024), American baseball pitcher
Carl Etelman (1900–1963), American football back and coach
Carl Fodor
Carl Fogarty
Carl Froch
Carl Garrigus , American football player
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Giammerese (born 1947), guitar player for American pop group
The Buckinghams
Carl Granderson (born 1996), American football player
Carl Grubert
Carl Gunnarsson , Swedish ice hockey player
Carl August Hagberg , Swedish linguist
Carl Hunter , bassist in The Farm
Carl Icahn , American businessman
Carl von In der Maur (1852–1913), Austrian aristocrat and Liechtenstein government official
Carl Jenkinson , football (soccer) player
Carl Johan Ståhlberg (1865–1952), Finnish jurist and the First President of the Republic of Finland
Carl Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist, founder of analytical psychology
Carl Kaiser (1927–2010), Canadian ice hockey player
Carl Karcher (1917–2008), American founder of the
Carl's Jr. fast food restaurant chain
Carl Kasell (1934–2018), American radio personality
Carl Kline (psychiatrist) (1915–2005), Canadian psychiatrist and researcher
Carl Laemmle (1867–1939), founder of
Universal Pictures
Carl Laemmle Jr. (1908–1979), producer and businessman
Carl Lawson (American football) (born 1994), American football player
Carl J. Luksic (1921–2009), American flying ace during World War II
Carl Lutz (1895–1975), Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews
Carl Mann (1942–2020), American rockabilly singer
Carl Menger , Austrian economist
Carl Oliver (born 1969), Bahamian sprinter and Olympic medallist
Carl Ona-Embo (born 1989), Congolese basketball player
Carl Orff (1895–1982) German composer
Charles "Carl" Panzram , American serial killer
Carl Perkins (1932–1998), American singer-songwriter
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Posy , Israeli philosopher
Carl Pursell , American politician
Carl Reiner (1922–2020), American actor, comedian, and director
Carl Rogers , American psychologist and psychotherapist
Carl Hancock Rux , American poet, playwright, writer, singer
Carl Sagan , American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist
Carl Sandburg , American poet, writer, editor
Carl Sargeant (1968–2017), Welsh politician
Carl Schueler , American race walker
Carl Smith (musician) (1927–2010), American country music singer
Carl Söderberg , Swedish ice hockey player
Carl Stockdale , American actor
Carl Heinrich Stratz , German-Russian gynecologist
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer , American actor and singer, best known as "Alfalfa" from the Our Gang (Little Rascals ) comedy shorts
Carl Olof Tallgren , Finnish politician and businessman
Carl Valeri , Australian association football player
Carl Van Doren , American critic
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Weathers (1948–2024), American actor and football player
Carl "Charles" Webb , formerly unidentified man known as "Somerton Man"
Carl Wieland (born 1950), Australian creationist
Carl Wilson (1946–1998), American musician and lead guitar player for The Beach Boys
Carl Wittrock , Dutch composer and conductor
Carl Voss-Schrader (1880–1955), Finnish colonel, business director, lawyer and interior minister
Carl Yastrzemski (born 1939), American baseball player
Carl Zeiss
As a stage name
Carl Carl , stage name of Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), Polish-born actor and theatre director
Margarethe Carl , stage name of Margarethe Bernbrunn (1788–1861), German soprano and actress
Fictional characters
Carl, a llama in the web series
Llamas with Hats
Carl, a character from Disney's
Meet the Robinsons
Carl, a character from the 1947 film
Unconquered
Carl, a character from
Waltzes from Vienna
Carl, a character from the Supercell game
Brawl Stars
"Carl", a nickname for
the Series 800 Model 101 Terminator in Terminator: Dark Fate
Carl Bentley, a character from the 1995 film
Jumanji
Carl Brutananadilewski , a character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Carl Carlson , a character from The Simpsons
Carl Casagrande, a character from
The Casagrandes
Carl Chryniszzswics, a character from
Johnny Bravo
Carl Clover , a playable character in the Blazblue fighting game series
Carl Conrad Coreander , a character in The Neverending Story
Carl Crayon, in the
Wee Sing 1988 video: Grandpa's Magical Toys
Carl Denham , a character from the 1933 film King Kong and its 2005 remake
Carl Elias , a recurring antagonist from the science fiction drama Person of Interest
Carl Fredricksen , a character from Disney-Pixar's Up
Carl Gallagher, a character in the TV series
Shameless
Carl Gould , a minor character in the
Arthur television show
Carl Grimes , a notoriously elusive character from the comic/TV series The Walking Dead
Carl Hamilton , a Swedish secret agent of novels by Jan Guillou
Carl Johnson , a character in the Grand Theft Auto video game series
Carl Kolchak , a character from Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Carl Rader, a character from the 1940 film
Santa Fe Trail
Carl Stephans, a character from
711 Ocean Drive
Carl the Grim Rabbit, a character from
Looney Tunes
Carl Wheezer , a character from
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Carl Winslow , a character from the TV series Family Matters
Derived surnames
There are several derivations of the surname Carl, most of them originating as "son of Carl":
See also
References