Given name & surname · also Latin
Carles
Carles is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Spanish and Catalan.
Original LatinCarolus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Carles comes from Latin, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Catalan usage, Carles developed from Karl.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Carles through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 686
- 681 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 480 as a first name in 2020; 475 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Carles’s family of names
In Catalan usage, Carles developed from the Old High German form Karl. In Catalan usage, Carles has a conventional equivalent in the English form Charles. In Catalan usage, Carles has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Carlos.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Carles has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
7 related names in 10 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Carles
- Carles PuigdemontCatalan politicianborn 1962
- Carles PuyolSpanish footballer (born 1978)
- Carles RexachSpanish footballer (born 1947)
- Carles AleñáSpanish association football playerborn 1998
- Carles PérezSpanish association football player (born 1998)
- Carles GilSpanish footballerborn 1992
- Carles PlanasSpanish association football playerborn 1991
- Carles BusquetsSpanish football player/coachborn 1967
- Carles SantosSpanish pianist, artist (1940–2017)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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